Alright, so, getting the Zordon stuff out of the way before Rita hits me, and then I'll type out the rest later (there's a lot).
The first odd thing I noticed here came about when the votes were Blue 3, Jason 2, Goldar 2. At that point, Zordon was the single vote on Billy.
Bulk had been sitting on a vote against Jason for a while due to Jason's
weird-ass vote against Skull, and Bulk kept pestering Jason about it.
But before Jason could get back to Bulk on it,
Zordon took issue with the fact that Bulk was still voting Jason that far in the phase.
These two things together feel strange to me. I agree that people should start making real votes and cases but then to turn around and fixate on what basically boils down to a mechanics push is odd. I agree Jason's been spotty on responses but that feels like such a nothing; why is it so important to you?
Also, while I'm here, does no one else care about Billy ghosting the thread after putting in about an hour of nothing? I don't know if I will be here at end of day so I have about two hours to make a strong decision and I'm torn between being frustrated that Billy is apparently going to get away with flying right at the line and being concerned with people being weirdly inconsistent, like Trini and Blue (though Trini voting for Blue is interesting).
In the same post in which Zordon complains about Bulk's vote on scum!Jason, they try to nod people in the direction of the Zordon-approved Billy vote.
Bulk engages them, and they go back and forth:
Because I'm a bad D1 player who fixates on small things to justify their vote when there is very little to go on. Maybe that colors my perception, but I really do not think Jason's post was such a "nothing" but something to follow up on, specially when I received exactly 0 reasoning after asking about it.
I don't think it's bad play. There's plenty of bad play to go around today but this just didn't make sense to me with the other thing. It felt insubstantial let's say but if it matters to you, it matters to you. I just wanted to hear about it.
Zordon downplays Bulk's reasonings for a vote while vying for a Billy lynch due to inactivity.
Item 1: build strong cases for strong eod votes
Item 2: focus on tiny think from one billion posts ago to the exclusion of so many other things happening
I wouldn’t say by itself it’s enough to make me suspect the motivation but it’s something to note in Bulk for me.
Tries to demoralize Bulk, which is something Bulk notices:
Huh. I don't know what to make of it but this strikes me as you folding easily in response to my post. Considering how aggressively you seem to be playing the game so far I expected some sort of rebuke. Were you just prodding me for any sort of response?
Also yeah I'm not sure Jason even answered. He said he missed something just now when he was around but I'm not sure if he was referring to the question or the roles stuff (which, if that's his excuse, is not a good look IMO, it should be plainly obvious our costume names mean nothing in this game or we'd all be voting for Rita and friends).
Zordon then has to back down:
Just trying to get a fix on your motivation for pursuing it.
But I also don’t feel very aggressive lol so I guess we’re all just doing the best we can.
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While the above is happening, Pink votes Jason. Afterwards, a couple of other votes fly by, and then Skull and Trini also vote Jason, putting them in the lead (!!) with Jason 5, Blue 4.
Immediately after Trini's vote, this happens:
Vote: Jason
Red Ranger is right. Something reeks about his vote for Blue Ranger saying he trusts me and White Ranger.
I think Jason that you were merely trying to save yourself, but you can just save that. Instead you added some weird bit about trust. Like, why do you trust me?
Sure, let Daddy Zordon explain to you The Legend of No Meta, in which people actually have to study one another and their actions in day one instead of comparing with their assumptions about what certain players do.
You know, all this phase you have kept to the outside, talking in theoreticals about flips and connections and later days but right now we have this day and these players and I think you are scum with no substance behind your posts. No real connection to the game.
vote: Trini
No one bit the Billy bait, and so Zordon moves on to Trini, which Rita had recently voted and made against against.
And then, holy shit, this:
Like Red Ranger is the only one to have said it. You shade me and then follow up with this lol
Is this your bus vote? Tempted to switch to Jason just for that but you know, I’m good here. Either flip is fine by me.
Good luck Rangers, and people not dressed as Rangers who are still fighting evil.
Even though the last time Zordon had mentioned Jason was in the context of
defending Jason against Bulk's vote, they say "either flip is fine by me" between Jason and Trini.
This is how Zordon ends their participation on D1 - by trying to agitate the thread against Trini (which worked) while unnaturaly saying they're fine with a potential Jason flip (which seemed likely at that point), and preemptively trying to tie Jason and Trini in a bus relationship.
