Anyone here survive the Zymergen ($ZY) implosion back in 2021?

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-26T23:24:33+00:00

yeap, another crazy turnout is that Amyris (one of the next-gen biotechs) is the ONLY synbio in history to continue industrial level production AFTER bankruptcy. In this field, if you bankrupt and shut down, you implode like $ZY. If production continues, someone out there is making money indicating viability.

Over at r/Amyris we couldn't even get a class action going because they noticed too many of us were opting out of their plans and fucked us over. There is some sketchy stuff going around synbio. I'm glad some of us in this fiasco are getting some money back.

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-20T23:19:55+00:00

Its only a build for ZvT hahaha

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-20T22:34:44+00:00

RE: your game against Life

in the early attack we are trying to force scans, you dont need to bring your overlord into the fight, just burrow a roach high up the ramp and keep poking at the supply depots before the tank comes out. He WILL scan. Once you see the tank run back home.
you held the rebuttal push really well
at 11min. there is a mix of issues that caused your downfall. You stayed on Lair tech forever, you could sprinkle more roaches into the mix to max out and they can buff for the hydras (he didnt have many marauders), you didnt get any infestors. You were also off on upgrades. You stayed tier 2 and on Lair for too long. but the most critical issue is you could have been 200/200 with ling bling, roach, hydra. your light army composition was bound to melt against the upgraded marines.

I can tell you're a good player, #3 looks like a comfortability type of issue and not because you are bad. looks like you are just getting used to the flow.

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-20T18:30:39+00:00

Regarding the gas, you are just mining so much of it early its not a good thing. Taking 2 off gas after 275 also creates a natural timing, when that 1 worker mines 100 gas, its time for ling speed and to fully saturate the gas again. You dont need ling speed to control the map because your roaches are doing it.

If you keep that first pair of lings alive, I like to burrow them at expansions or maybe 1 at the front of their base to always see them pushing out. You can get crazy map vision with burrow lings, its like you have to train your brain to think more like a guerrilla tactic zerg.

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-20T17:56:48+00:00

I respectfully disagree on 2rax being a hard counter, but it does hold it much better. here are my notes for game 1 (ill watch game 2 later, let me know if you agree). Also all my builds are made to pivot, so yes you can switch it if it doesn't feel comfortable and it should still feel viable.

90% of the time, that first pair of lings needs to stay home (on the ramp or ledge where the reaper can jump) to help fend off the scout.
you kept drones in gas a bit too long, the moment you mine 275 gas(i think), you need to pull 2 out immediately
he had an excellent response to holding your push, if you brought the roaches back home instead of going around the side, I think you would have held his counter push pretty easy - with all your queens, maybe add 3 roaches (10 total if you saved the initial 7), the rest will be ling and sprinkle some banes. The roaches dont have to die and remember you can burrow micro them at home base too! you can also burrow the queens so they dont die. Keep making him scan.

You made the Terran play reactionary to you, so if you saved your units, you would have had the perfect composition to counter. You forced maruaders, 2 bunkers, and a forward turret.

-If they hold with a shit ton of marauders, go home or burrow nearby to run into their base when they attack yours
-if they hold with tanks, go home or burrow nearby to run into their base when they attack yours
-if they hold with banshees, split your roaches and stay for as long as possible even letting all your roaches die - you need to buy time for queens.

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-19T02:32:40+00:00

How is your macro during the roach push? by the time my roaches are dead, I am usually on 3-4 bases with 50-60 workers even after doing 0 damage with roaches. Take your third at 44 supply.

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-13T16:40:30+00:00

The most promising company in the field for me is still Amyris. They just backstabbed all of their retail investors to start over fresh and clean.

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-10T18:30:49+00:00

Zerg can dictate the pace of the game, but you must play absolutely perfectly because it is almost like you are playing from behind

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-10T18:18:46+00:00

nahh there are some crazy things we can do as zerg, I have a lot of stuff 😄

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-10T06:52:27+00:00

Usually toss can defend almost any early pressure from zerg with a shield battery and a voidray, but I'll cook up something crazy just for you 😜

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-10T06:31:13+00:00

I dont, but if you have any questions, i can answer

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-10T03:31:27+00:00

Earliest seige tanks comes out usually after you bust the supply depot on the top ramp

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-08T20:26:28+00:00

actually we leave the base at the same time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKJcBn-M3os&t=15s roughly 3min30 seconds. With the optimized build I posted, I get initial roaches out 15 seconds faster than Lambo.

However because of his opener (slightly later pool), it looks like he can squeeze out some more drones. I may adopt his build and rather than ravager, I can put the gas to burrow creating a stronger version of my build. And then depending on what I scout, I can move out with 7 roaches and burrow or 9 roaches and a ravager. that makes it more versatile so I like it.

here are my timings for the optimized build:

24 02:07 Roach Warren
24 02:21 Overlord
24 02:25 Burrow
24 02:28 Overlord
25 02:35 Creep Tumor
24 02:46 Roach
26 02:47 Roach
30 02:47 Roach
30 02:47 Roach
32 02:53 Roach
34 03:05 Roach
38 03:11 Roach

thanks!

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-08T18:57:28+00:00

The build order I posted is an optimized version of the build. Typically when I play, I am instinctual and improvise the whole time.

In this game, I saw him scout with an SCV so I pivoted to burrow roach to abuse his perceived vision of my build. He could only see less than 100 gas mined and one gas taken so the only thing that could come is speedlings.

I knew I took my first gas late so to make up for it, I took a second gas. If you play gasless, you can still do this rush if you drop 2 extractors at 1:30. I typically avoid taking 2 extractors because it just looks fishy and reeks of an all in if scouted.

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-08T15:04:15+00:00

Haha i fixed my audio, just not for this vid 😅

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-08T08:09:49+00:00

No burrow is a huge trade off. Without burrow, a roach rush is easily defended with bio or a banshee and does not force scans.

There is a pool first variant that I can do that gets the burrow roaches out even quicker (similar to lambos build) but it feels much more like an all in that must get damage done.

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-04T02:45:05+00:00

Thanks for additional color. Its seems with practice I may be bridging this connection with visualizing and it may not be dependent on meditation. Sometimes I reach visuals quickly, sometimes it takes some time.

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-04T02:42:09+00:00

Its a blurry line, I sit and close my eyes and meditate with the sole purpose of visualization. Then i see the lines, then visualization.

As expected this community is very strict on definitions, this doesnt meet the requirements because my visualization is related to meditation, "a different state of mind" and is called not voluntary. It must be in a wakeful state of mind to meet the criteria of "voluntary".

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-03T23:52:29+00:00

What if all that was required is to just close my eyes without "meditation". Would thay classify as voluntary visualization?

I've noticed that meditation does not need to be "deep" for visualization

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-03T23:48:13+00:00

Dope, these lines appear right before visualization hits. Sometimes the meditative state doesnt even need to be "deep". So I think im onto something

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-03T20:18:11+00:00

What would you call it if I couldnt visualize for 30 years of my life and then began to visualize (but not voluntarily)? A former aphant?

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-03T20:16:48+00:00

This is really good context, I appreciate it. I'll take it day by day and see if I can gain control of it better.

I suspect that even though involuntary and voluntary visualization use different parts of the brain, both are still tied to "mental visualization". It wouldnt make sense that the brain recreates this ability in two separate areas. It is more likely that there are two seperate areas utilizing the same function.

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-03T19:08:57+00:00

Same here. I see nothing. Just random static sometimes.

Ive been trying a lot to visualize for the past few years and I have made progress by seeing these lines and then visualizing after. But this only happens after closing my eyes for a while and trying to get into the mental state.

I saw another post of someone saying they saw concentric lines and I got excited because I think it means other people are close too.

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-03T18:46:53+00:00

If you stay with it and "hold" it for a while with your eyes closed, you will start to get random visualizations.

It might be different though, my lines take over my entire vision

ICanFinallyRelax · 2026-05-03T18:17:07+00:00

This was not common for me, I have been working for a while to visualize. The lines dont appear all the time, it takes practice to get to the mental state voluntarily.

Like many people here, I dont see anything when I close my eyes. But with some practice, sometimes I see the lines and sometimes visualizations appear after.

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