| rdfs:comment | - April 25, 2003 was his last day at Bungie and he released this statement: "Before the juicy conspiracy theories start, I'd like to state for the record that there's no intrigue or drama behind this decision ... It's just time for me to do something different. Working at Bungie is probably the best thing that's happened to me. I've learned a lot and enjoyed myself immensely. I've had the honor of working with some of the most intelligent, creative, fun people on the planet. When I started at Bungie, my job title was The Man in the Online Asbestos Suit. Now I'm the Community Guy. Things have changed. Getting paid to watch them change is nice work if you can get it. -Matt Soell Community Guy/Keeper of the Bungie Way 1/16/95 - 4/25/03 "
- Matt Soell is known for his highly understandable and completely natural love of hippos and his often witty writing, both in Bungie's public announcements and in his work on Wideload's games. He is responsible for much of the humor that went into Bungie's public image and the legacy of that style of humor can still be seen in Bungie today. Soell is also known for being the creator of the Soffish phenomenon. As he tells it, he first bought Soffish at the American Science and Surplus tent sale in Chicago, Illinois.
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| abstract | - April 25, 2003 was his last day at Bungie and he released this statement: "Before the juicy conspiracy theories start, I'd like to state for the record that there's no intrigue or drama behind this decision ... It's just time for me to do something different. Working at Bungie is probably the best thing that's happened to me. I've learned a lot and enjoyed myself immensely. I've had the honor of working with some of the most intelligent, creative, fun people on the planet. When I started at Bungie, my job title was The Man in the Online Asbestos Suit. Now I'm the Community Guy. Things have changed. Getting paid to watch them change is nice work if you can get it. -Matt Soell Community Guy/Keeper of the Bungie Way 1/16/95 - 4/25/03 "
- Matt Soell is known for his highly understandable and completely natural love of hippos and his often witty writing, both in Bungie's public announcements and in his work on Wideload's games. He is responsible for much of the humor that went into Bungie's public image and the legacy of that style of humor can still be seen in Bungie today. Soell is also known for being the creator of the Soffish phenomenon. As he tells it, he first bought Soffish at the American Science and Surplus tent sale in Chicago, Illinois. "I actually bought two of them, one carp-like one (the "official" Soffish, or at least what Bungie vets might think of as the official one) and another which resembled a rainbow trout. They were 10 cents each and if I had known what a cultural phenomenon they would become I would have bought the entire stack instead of just two. The carp-like Soffish lived in a Gatorade bottle filled with water. The second one was never removed from his packaging. Both have long since gone missing. At one point (when Bungie was still in Chicago) the then-manager of the Bungie Store, Jim Ruiz, called American Science and Surplus to see if they had any more. They did not even know what he was talking about. And that was just a couple years after I'd bought them. There are many mysteries associated with Soffish - where they came from, where they are now, and what does it all mean? I think we should just be grateful to have had Soffish in our lives for the brief period we did." ~ Matt Soell on the Origins of Soffish (source)
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