Game writer and KS contributor Gus Mastrapa has a new column about standing in line for Modern Warfare 3. You can feel the desert air. The story doesn’t take the turns you might think.

I’ll admit that I was made for living in that other, more rare America where people hammer out police procedural teleplays at The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Where, before the recession, nobody seemed to have a day job. Here in Apple Valley nobody seems to have a day job either, but that’s because so many here are unemployed. San Bernardino county’s rate is about 13.6%.

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