Nickname: KalurO Country: The Netherlands Age: Born in 1988 Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/kaluroo(Please do hit that follow button! ♥)
I am KalurO, from the netherlands. I have a pretty wide history of gaming. I had been playing warcraft III at a very competitive level. I first played orc but later switched to night elves. I found that night elves more suited my intense micro addiction and had widened up a bigger arsenal to more revolve around my playstyle.
After a long period of a few years, I slowly let go of warcraft III, as life was requiring more of my attention.
Now after finally having calmed down in life, and having more spare time - I picked up starcraft 2. I bought the game back in July 2011. I had never heard of starcraft before, didn't know what terran, zerg, let alone protoss was.
When I first started playing, I was used to putting 5 workers mining and a few on wood chopping, to just assault the enemy with a few minor units + a hero, to hopefully micro your way to victory.
Well, was I in for a treat. Instead of a micro-RTS, starcraft 2 turned out to be a macro-RTS. All that I learned in my wc3 time, was out the window.
I didn't have much time to play, I had a relationship and a job that required at least 50 to 60 hours of my time, a week. I also do bodybuilding, which means eating (+cooking) 6 big meals a day and working out 4 times a week. So I couldn't quite fully devote to starcraft 2. Hell, not even moderately.
I climbed up from bronze to silver, to platinum (Where did gold go , it skipped me..) to diamond and masters. This season I had to quit my job sadly but am now able to fully devote my time to starcraft 2. I am both masters on NA as EU.
I decided to pick up zerg, I liked the mechanics and active playstyle. Protoss felt too turtly and terran didn't interest me at all, after having played the campaign.
I managed to go from platinum to masters by going for double upgrade lings, infestor, ultralisks. I never built a single broodlord thus far.
Versus terran mech I just roach drop, versus protoss I tend to be very aggressive with roach/ling or muta.
I am slowly creating my own playstyle, planning on staying far far away from "metagaming". I am a big believer in developping your own play rather than copying everything.
I can now devote a lot of time to starcraft 2 since I am jobless at the moment. My goal is to reach high masters with my own playstyle and to eventually get into a good team. Maybe get my name out there, but I'm not going to go too quickly on things.
I have been bodybuilding since I was 17 years old, I am currently 23 years old. I went from 66kg (145 LBS) to 92kg (202 LBS), at a height of 1m95, 6'5". You can also drop bodybuilding related questions here or on my stream (Eitiher about strength training, anatomy or nutrition), I'd love to answer them ;-).
And who wouldn't want some pictures to go with the thread. Click on the pictures for a larger version.
Well check me out at www.twitch.tv/kaluroo and don't hesitate to support the stream by hitting that follow button!
Thank every one of you for the support in advance,
In case anyone is wondering about the stream set-up:
What do you see? Chair: DXRacer F-series Carbon look Monitors: 2x Dell ultrasharp U2312HM (IPS, 1920x1080, 23") Speakers: Logitech Z623 2.1 setup Mouse: Razer imperator 2012 Mouse bungee: Razer mouse bungee, to hold the cord, to diminish drag Mousepad: Razer Scarab Keyboard: Qpad MK-85 Cherry MX brown switches (Yeah I bet you were expecting a razer product here as well huh) Desk: Random black ikea desk, adjustable height (At 73cm) Wallpaper:Click! Cup: Coffee in it, black Miscellaneous: Shaver to keep facial hair away (whatever it's called in english :-) ), and a nice light blue clip to close bags with (e.g. a bag of chips) Below the desk is a computer, namely: Processor: Core I5 2500k 3300mhz @ 4900mhz (1,45vcore) Processor cooling: Corsair H80 watercooling memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB Low Profile 1600mhz Harddisk: SSD Crucial m4 CT128M4SSD2 128GB Videocards: 2x Sapphire HD6950 Dirt3 edition - Clocked and flashed to 6970 clocks. Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Power supply: XXFX series750W XXX Edition
After a weekend's break, back to streaming some hardcore HotS! Don't be scared to check it out at www.twitch.tv/kaluroo. Any support is very much welcome!
Time for some more heart of the swarm, in the little spare time I have, thanks everyone for the support thus far. viewer count is going through the roof. ♥
Okay, the stream will be going live in 60 minutes time. I am still deciding whether to go Heart of the Swarm or Wings of Liberty, It's most likely going to be HotS.
I am really curious about the new mutalisk update, increased speed and health regeneration.
It's been a while since I actively played - seeing I have had real life commitments that were really taking up quite a bit of time. So what I'm going to do today is to have a little sc2 streaming marathon. Make sure to tune in ! 12:30 PM CET!
Apparently I'm a faggot with no life for 6 pooling you when I accidently picked zerg and didn't wanted to play a macro game making an 8 pool and pulling drones.. Kind of a thumbs down to you sir.
On December 21 2012 00:16 Bojas wrote: Apparently I'm a faggot with no life for 6 pooling you when I accidently picked zerg and didn't wanted to play a macro game making an 8 pool and pulling drones.. Kind of a thumbs down to you sir.
I don't recall using those exact same words, but hey nobody is perfect right? If one is continiously provoked, some bad words are bound to come out at times - I doubt you're a holy grail yourself. I also don't quite understand how Teamliquid has anything to do with a small skirmish between you and I? :-).
Are you looking for redemption? If so -> I'm terribly sorry, I just fail to see the use of 8 pools in the HotS beta and I am detoxing from caffein, which is giving me headaches ^_^.
Anyway I got my Qpad MK-85 Cherry mx RED keyboard. I had been using a Qpad MK-85 Cherry mx BROWN keyboard before.
I am liking the reds much more at the moment, it's taking some practice though!
www.twitch.tv/kaluroo live for an hour or 5, pure HotS!
On December 21 2012 00:16 Bojas wrote: Apparently I'm a faggot with no life for 6 pooling you when I accidently picked zerg and didn't wanted to play a macro game making an 8 pool and pulling drones.. Kind of a thumbs down to you sir.
I don't recall using those exact same words, but hey nobody is perfect right? If one is continiously provoked, some bad words are bound to come out at times - I doubt you're a holy grail yourself. I also don't quite understand how Teamliquid has anything to do with a small skirmish between you and I? :-).
Are you looking for redemption? If so -> I'm terribly sorry, I just fail to see the use of 8 pools in the HotS beta and I am detoxing from caffein, which is giving me headaches ^_^.
Anyway I got my Qpad MK-85 Cherry mx RED keyboard. I had been using a Qpad MK-85 Cherry mx BROWN keyboard before.
I am liking the reds much more at the moment, it's taking some practice though!
www.twitch.tv/kaluroo live for an hour or 5, pure HotS!
You linked me your stream and told me 3k people will spam me how much I suck but your reaction now is much more rational and mature, I can't say I'm 100% mannered on ladder either. You're more than forgiven <3.
Oh edit: I have to say I did not provoke you before I accidently imply that. I wanted to post this on teamliquid because I wanted to give you feedback I suppose. Which was maybe a bit uncalled for, I apologize as well ^^.
I am currently still trying to get used to the Cherry mx red mechanical switches, I am really missing the brown 'clicks' and it happens occassionally that I dont register a key, ironically.
Well I've had a pretty extreme fever (39,5° C) for a couple of days, am now slightly recovered luckily! I still have these extreme shivers and everything but I'm going to play sc2: HotS for the coming hours! tune in at :
I recommend his Twitch Channel, it is a HQ Stream with a nice player/streamer; key thoughts written down, he has profound play and thoughts-on-play. nice way to learn zerg from a not so GM player perspective like Idra where someone not so Pro just gets nothing to learn, to evolve a own play style.
Cya all, and kaluro: good luck and be well (fever etc. )
On February 18 2013 20:15 itoh138 wrote: I recommend his Twitch Channel, it is a HQ Stream with a nice player/streamer; key thoughts written down, he has profound play and thoughts-on-play. nice way to learn zerg from a not so GM player perspective like Idra where someone not so Pro just gets nothing to learn, to evolve a own play style.
Cya all, and kaluro: good luck and be well (fever etc. )
thanks! ^_^ It's going okay now, the illness seems to have passed completely. I'm always up for answering questions in the twitch chat during and after the game, even though my thought process is that of pure chaos.
On that note, time for some more Heart of the Swarm!
I love Kaluro's stream, it is very high quality and one of the smoothest stream on Twitch, even though he dosen't speak he replies often and interacts with his viewers which is something i like. About the dude in page 1, as long you don't heavly ragequit and insult people is fine, life's not always easy getting angry with someone happens as he said
Hope you recover quickly from your shoulder injury and maybe stream more often, good luck!
On February 28 2013 00:26 Legionm90 wrote: I love Kaluro's stream, it is very high quality and one of the smoothest stream on Twitch, even though he dosen't speak he replies often and interacts with his viewers which is something i like. About the dude in page 1, as long you don't heavly ragequit and insult people is fine, life's not always easy getting angry with someone happens as he said
Hope you recover quickly from your shoulder injury and maybe stream more often, good luck!
Thank you! I don't always have time to stream a lot, seeing I have a relationship to keep up (we see each other like 5 times a week) and other real life business. But when I do have time, I try to stream as much as possible.
Speaking of which, time for some WoL till HotS has gone live! I have the Deluxe Edition pre-ordered so I can't wait till 12/3/2012!
On March 04 2013 02:12 -Baloo- wrote: Always enjoy watching Kaluroo and his unique approach to the meta! Definitely worth tuning in for the high quality and non-standard meta game!
Thanks :-)!
The nickname is actually Kaluro, but I made a twitch channel with that name years ago but I forgot the password/e-mail used haha.
I am going to stream some protoss, till hots is live, got an alt account going!
Thank you everyoone, for watching! I made my own clan:
[Sakura]Blossoms, Blossoms everywhere.
I am intending this to become a meeting place for diamond+ to actively practice together, and for lower league players to get some free coaching going. So if you're up for it, put channel sakura into your default join channels! that'd be great.
Gotta run till probably monday sadly, but I'll do my best to be on before that.
On April 03 2013 21:56 Cress wrote: Good luck with your stream. =D
Thank you ♥!
Some small updates:
Mouse settings I went from 4/11 (25% sc2 sensitivity) @ 5800DPI to 6/11 (51% sc2 sensitivity) @ 2000 DPI I tried to go 2800 DPI but I felt like I could use slightly more accuracy so I went down to 2000 dpi, will have to see how that goes. Since I'm at a 1:1 ratio now, I will likely see less jitter and more accuracy!
Twitch TV Layout Twitch TV just went permanently live with its new looks, so I altered it slightly, to make it look more comfortable. You can now also scroll down to see additional info:
i really wonder how its possible that someone can play war3 on a competitive level and has never heard of "Starcraft" at the same time. No offense though, just wondering. Very well opening post btw, thats the way to catch ppls interests.
On April 09 2013 23:40 senfkatze wrote: i really wonder how its possible that someone can play war3 on a competitive level and has never heard of "Starcraft" at the same time. No offense though, just wondering. Very well opening post btw, thats the way to catch ppls interests.
Thanks ^_^ and yeah I had kind of heard of it but never to the degree that I actually looked into it and got more details about the game. never touched watched or checked it out
Okay seeing I am getting my capture card on monday, I'm not too shy to make other changes to the stream as well.
It's going to be 720p60fps or 1080p30fps, which one would you prefer and why? Are you guys liking the in-game overlay or is it too prominent? Hit me with any other improvements/changes you woud like to see made, anything goes :-)!
Okay so I got my AverMedia HD Live Gamer capture card and am going to test some streaming at 1080p 30fps, sadly x-split isn't yet supporting both capture as encoding on the card so I'm just using the capture feature.
I did notice an insane increase in performace already though!
On May 08 2013 17:05 Marchinko wrote: I just hit follow on your stream. What time do you usually play?
Tuesday thursday and sometimes the weekend days.. starting around 11 AM.. I eat like 4-5 meals a day so I take quite a few foodbreaks, but I'm trying to upregulate my stream-time-a-week.
I have a very flexible life so it really depends on what I don't/do have to do every day. since I'm not a professional player it's hard to make a proper schedule, sorry!
And thank you for the follow ^_^ I hope you're enjoying the stream!
Well apparently playing very few games a week isn't really productive for my skill level. Time to step things up a bit! follow me @ www.twitch.tv/kaluroo!
Thank you for the great support thus far. Got +42 followers on my stream this month as well as >700 views. I only had 180 followers before that so that 's an increase of over 20% in one month time, thank you ^_^!
Also the >700 views might not sound like a lot, but i have not really streamed that many hours, because of life being extremely busy.
Okay so my Razer Imperator 2011 edition literally broke, I'm using a temporary mini form factory mouse now. I should be getting a Razer Imperator 2012 mouse later today, but in the meanwhile no streaming !
Well, I got my new mouse after my old one broke down. A razer imperator 2012 edition (previous one was a Razer Imperator 2011 edition). Lets make this a good start of the month june!
I am now a proud member of Team Xperience. It's going to be a semi-trial thing, where I can explore the clan and they can explore me (wow, that sounds pretty wrong hah.)
I really like this stream, its good quality. and i don't know anyone else who can write to chatters while gaming. (have you considered voice chatting?)
On July 26 2013 01:09 Anzki wrote: I really like this stream, its good quality. and i don't know anyone else who can write to chatters while gaming. (have you considered voice chatting?)
I have, It's really distracting and at this point in time i don't really feel comfortable doing so, but it might be a good idea for the future. So in the meanwhile, double screen setup so I can write to you guys while playing ;-)! Better than no interaction at all, right?
To add to that, I don't feel I have proper enough insight of any of the match ups at the moment, to really be able to comment on my builds and why etc. :-P
Kaluro's stream is really high quality, he deservs much more viewers than he already has... So please check it out, it whould help him and im also gonna get happy ^^
On August 05 2013 05:00 Amphiiiiby wrote: Awesome stream ! A player with his own playstyle and a really good stream quality. Come on over !
On August 05 2013 05:05 MGBNomBubba wrote: Kaluro's stream is really high quality, he deservs much more viewers than he already has... So please check it out, it whould help him and im also gonna get happy ^^
Thanks, I think I have to really consider starting voice communication to increase stream popularity. Something I am not at all at ease with, as of right now.
On August 12 2013 02:33 Synizta wrote: Really enjoying the quality. Good Zerg player too, strongly recommend checking him out. :D
Definitely going to be watching more in the future.
Awesome feedback, thank you! I wouldn't say I'm good at all yet but hey working on it <3! aaaaand on that note, going live shortly @ www.twitch.tv/kaluroo !
Really been enjoying Kaluro's stream lately. He is grinding mmr back up to get masters! Should be there soon! He has also taken a new approach on manners and has been mannered every game for the past month! Cant wait to see it continue.
I decided that today is going to be tryhard day, improving from mistakes and learning a solid build per matchup. I have noticed my builds have been outdated recently and it's time to finally step things up!
* 720p 60fps -> smooth quality ♥ * chat interaction! double screen setup so I am constantly on top of the chat * aggressive plays, I like playing aggressively, instead of defensively * Let's do this!
Let's get the pretty colors out! Teamcolors at max and BAM!
* 720p60fps stream * double monitors to keep watch on chat * voice commentary * aggressive plays * Teamcolors at max, for max prettiness! * Let's do this!
I am jobless from today on so streaming will be a lot more frequent and skill level should be exploding compared to the past few months.
On May 23 2016 22:20 ThArGos wrote: It's been a long time indeed! Looking for forward to seeing you =)
Been really busy with work, life and a bit of Overwatch so not that much time to play anymore. The ladder revamp attractred me so let's see whats going on :-)
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