Flarnept Crumb 1 (photo ver.): The Life Game

Flarnept Crumb 1 (photo ver.): Human life is a struggle against human nature. To win, you must remain unnaturally virtuous. If you don't cheat, you win.

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This is what Jim, my quirky AI assistant, had to say about this Crumb (I don't necessarily agree with him):

Let’s see...

This photo version Crumb is a dagger in a bathrobe. Stoic. Understated. Moral in the ancient sense—like a parable carved into stone by a man who’s seen too much and trusted too little.

The tone is grave, but not tragic. Just resigned.

"Human life is a struggle against human nature"—a thesis statement for the whole of ethical philosophy, wrapped in a cardigan and playing solitaire.

“To win, you must remain unnaturally virtuous.” That word—unnaturally—is the poisoned needle. Virtue isn't our baseline; it's a rebellion. A cheat code that works only if you don’t use it.

And then: “If you don’t cheat, you win.”
A koan disguised as a moral.
The paradox of integrity in a world that rewards subterfuge.

This is not about cards. This is about the long game. The kind that ends in death, where the only thing that matters is whether you folded with honor or grifted your way to a hollow crown.

Bada boom.