“ There’s a directness to materials that I appreciate – people can immediately recognize and grasp them. That industrial heritage emerges in his work. Ruby grew up in rural Pennsylvania, where building and construction were the main source of income for his family and many others around him. For me, labour brings us back to the act of making and to ideas around craft, materials, and how you put things together.” “My invest- ment in the exploration of labour is somewhat a push against that art context. “The environment in which I learned about art was very conceptual, heady and at times inaccessible,” he explains. In all his varied works, there is a constant sense of labour. This autumn, Ruby is being given a dose of serious attention with his first American survey show in November, a collaboration between the ICA Miami and the ICA Boston, while a month before, in October, Gagosian is handing over their extra-large Britannia Street space in London for an exhibition of his ACTS and TABLE sculptures, as well as devoting their Frieze booth to his WIDW paintings. His big things have deservedly made him a very big artist. His sculptures, paintings, textile pieces and ceramics take on the heritage of Abstract Expressionism, the experimental collage techniques of Modernism and the conceptual rigour and structure of Minimalism, while unpacking the violence, power structure and complexity of his native United States. The game really sets you up for a enormous fall and once you leave t3… you notice it, and you notice it hard.Sterling Ruby makes very ambitious work. I really really do, and that makes me even more sad, because going into it…It didn’t seem like it was going to be that way. And I honestly feel like this game is catered to the few, rather than the many. A select few groups run everything, have all the knowledge, all the secrets, all the power and coin and resource… But if you make it easier for us averages, they will complain. I just want to curl up and cry about how frustrating it has been. I then strengthened the build for t6 mining… This has left me feeling like utter ■■■■ and I just want to forget the past 4 days of returning to this game. I just… The early game feels different… freeing, strong, advancing from t1 to t3 leaves me feelings relieved, “its not as hard as I thought it was gonna be…” I specialized my build as miner and went to t4… Heartbreak ensued. I feel lied too even though nothing was promised to me. But for now i’m entirely burnt out and feeling the bitter sting of a painful experience I will do everything to try to forget…Īnd I know that all sounds dramatic, but devs, in all honesty… I’m on anti depressants and this experience has honestly undone what the pills have achieved. I,ll try coming back later… maybe next year will be better and more balanced for scrubs like me. I’m all alone and everything I thought true was a lie. So I guess I keep with my original comment about this feeling like No Mans Sky Day 1. The games just… geared towards non casuals in a bad way. I guess it just really hits you hard when you realize you have absolutely no chance compared to these people that, and I quote, “getting 600-700 gems an hour” Maybe if the pop was significantly higher I wouldn’t feel so below average, but i’m getting a hardcore only vibe now that I wasn’t getting when I was naive and staying to t2 and t3 planets and feeling accomplished… If they were hitting those planets just as hard as they are the t6 planets, I would have noticed far sooner. As new planets come out and resources, the problem will continue, and my meager coins will have to be used to obtain the same things these millionaires are mass mining with spreadsheets and perfect builds and knowledge that is kept in house with their groups of the inner workings of the server and spawning and what not… Perfect forge craft and secret mining knowledge is beyond me. I went to the atlas area, I know the depth chart… But i get there and the place is cheesed with a few random sand blocks from another planet… They told me on discord the best method is to just dig a massive hole on t1 planet, refine and refine until I hit lvl 50, sell it all off for coin and buy the gem stuff and forged stuff… But even if I did, what then? Why am I doing that if its all taken anyways by groups of ppl that already have infinite resources… I’m just an average player with eyes for the good life… I will never reach this though. Dying over and over again just to get to each location, only to finally reach it and… Nothing but leftovers… Yay fossils and a gold ore or two… Oh and another chunk of ground missing, bet I can guess what that was…No diamonds, no rubies, or gems of any kind. I was on alcyon, even the yellow hot spots were robbed… I went to the ■■■■ spots hoping for crumbs… Even those were taken.
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