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He was interviewed by after the Columbine High School Massacre regarding correlations between video games and school violence. He also created the well-known protip meme. Linguica has appeared in several Doom modifications, including Skulltag as a player skin, and MassMouth 2 as the sidekick to head villain John Romero. Linguica held Hissy for two years, resulting in a tongue-in-cheek protest by a portion of the Doom community known as "Free Hissy." It earned him the nickname of "Hissy Hogger," which has since been applied to anyone who receives the plush cacodemon. He also wrote The Doomworld idgames database as a web interface to the idgames archive. Stine has also contributed to several important projects, including Gothic 99.

He used his influence in October 1999 in convincing John Carmack to re-license the Doom source code under the GNU GPL.

His status as webmaster of one of the most influential Doom sites earned Stine a widespread reputation. Despite his departure, he remained an influential figure in the Doom community into the late 2000s, continuing to contribute to Doomworld in an unofficial context. During these periods of time, he has been responsible for the majority of effort in running the site, including the design and back-end code. Stine ran the site for several years before officially relinquishing his position in 2003, and then resumed activities in 2016. Andrew "Linguica" Stine is the cofounder and webmaster of Doomworld.
