Editing Columbine High School massacre (section)

====''Doom''====
{{See also|Doom (1993 video game)#Controversies}}
They were avid fans of ''Doom'' especially.<ref name=rules>{{cite web |url=https://www.westword.com/news/doom-rules-5060146 |first=Alan |last=Prendergast |date=August 5, 1999 |title=Doom Rules}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Bai |first=Matt |url=https://www.newsweek.com/columbine-high-school-anatomy-massacre-166950 |title=Columbine High School: Anatomy of a Massacre |work=Newsweek |date=May 2, 1999 |access-date=2020-04-24}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Cullen|2009|p=137}}</ref> Harris said of the massacre, "It's going to be like...''Doom''."<ref name=doom262>{{Harvnb|Kushner|2004|p=262}}</ref> He also wrote "I must not be sidetracked by my feelings of sympathy...so I will force myself to believe that everyone is just another monster from ''Doom''."<ref>Harris journal, October 23, 1998</ref> In Harris's yearbook, Klebold wrote "I find a similarity between people and ''Doom'' [[zombie]]s."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miraldi |first=Rob |title=Video games spur violence. How can we keep ignoring their impact on gun culture? {{!}} Miraldi |url=https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/opinion/2022/07/14/video-games-spur-violence-how-can-we-keep-ignoring-their-impact-on-gun-culture/65373182007/ |access-date=2023-12-28 |website=Poughkeepsie Journal |language=en-US}}</ref> Harris named his shotgun Arlene after a character in the [[Doom (novel series)|''Doom'' novels]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Cullen|2009|p=293}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Brown|2002|p=204}}</ref> The TEC-9 Klebold used resembled an AB-10, a weapon from the ''Doom'' novels that Harris referenced several times.<ref name=kass197/><ref>{{Harvnb|ab Hugh|1995|p=175}}</ref>

Harris spent a great deal of time creating a large WAD, named Tier (German for 'animal', and a [[Sehnsucht (Rammstein album)|song]] by [[Rammstein]]), calling it his "life's work".<ref name=tape2652>Basement Tapes, March 18, 1999</ref>{{Better source needed|date=April 2019}} The WAD was uploaded to the Columbine school computer and to AOL shortly before the attack, but appears to have been lost.<ref name=Block />