I negotiate for a living, I need to understand what people mean. Sometimes they mean what they say, sometimes they mean something different or more. Nobody's perfect, sometimes I just get it wrong and often it's probabilistic, he probably means X but might mean Y.
Anywho, my thinking was, aston made an implied and very mild comment about Rick, and Huffy came back with a response that was way out of proportion to Aston's slight, implied criticism. What could that mean?
Maybe Huffy didn't understand Aston's comment, we'll see now that you've made the discussion clear. Maybe Huffy had a bad day or was in a hurry. Maybe Huffy is an a$$hole, though Huffy is a lot of things, I've never considered him to be an a$$hole, he's much too strategic for that. Maybe Huffy wanted to stir the pot, some people (like Aston and me) think stirring the pot is fun, but Huffy doesn't usually do that (he stirs the pot but usually for self-aggrandizement). Maybe he's emotionally unnuanced, there are certainly posters like that, but that's not Huffy.
So what? Well, often Huffy's opinion isn't Huffy's opinion, or at least not just Huffy's opinion. It's water being carried. So if this is carried water, then that suggests that something is going on to make someone who matters defensive and aggressive about Rick. Fire. Am I right? I don't know, only time will tell. It'll be fun to see. Half the fun of the board is figuring people out and trying to understand why they say what they say.
