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In a message dated 1/13/2006 4:06:23 A.M. Central Standard Time,
adross@xxxxxxx writes:
Probably not, and here's my odd reasoning why (note: I am not the expert
here, just a Rabbit who's played a lot of Looney games and can sometime channel
their hippie sort of thinking)
When composting, you put stuff into the top of the bin, stir it around and
let it set for a while... then your good stuff (the compost) comes out the
bottom of the bin - you can have an active compost heap, take stuff from
the bottom and put new stuff in at the top. This is mimicked (another good
ecological/biological concept, btw) by putting new trashed cards at the top but
taking from the bottom.
In Chrononauts, we're talking about time. The draw card is the
future, the discard pile is the past. Everyone's memory of the recent past
(top of the pile) is always much much better than their memory of the distant
past (bottom of the pile) so it makes sense that if you're going to learn from
the past and use those lessons learned, you'd use the most recent ones... that's
why you take from the top of the pile.
I have no idea if this is what Andy and the rest were thinking when they
established those rules, but they make sort of good sense to me.
Carol
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