Phrase used in StarCraft 2 play, especially at the pro level, to describe adapting to a situation with a seemingly on the fly strategy that exploits a specific mistake made by an opponent that is unlikely to be repeated later in the game or in further games for that round if it were countered by using a conventional strategy. As an opponent would then be forced to react by changing their overall playstyle for the remaining games in the match, the targeted weakness will likely disappear. Thus a player would lose their metagame advantage of being able to predict where and when an opponent is open to attacks.
Comes from veteran Ukranian StarCraft progamer Aleksey "White-Ra" Krupnyk responding to a question regarding how he would handle an infamously tough match-up for him in an event, which due to his strong accent and odd use of English came out in a memorable fashion:
"Don't worry, I use Special Tactics this time, no problem."
White-Ra went onto win the match 3-0 and advance to the next round by playing standardized openings that moved into bizarre unit mixes and unorthodox usage of them that were unique to each game but in all cases exploited the same specific weakness in his opponent's strategy.
"Dave played a normal 3-gate robo opening, but then shifted into some bizarre 1 colossus and 4 zealots in 2 warp prisms to kill his opponent's workers and kite his marines away from the base at the same time."
"Well he must have used Special Tactics"
"He was pushing out of his main base with a ball of marines while expanding to his natural, so I used Special Tactics and dropped 4 blue-flame hellions to kill of his workers in the main, then picked them up and dropped them in front of his retreating marines while dropping 2 tanks behind his mineral line to pick-off workers as they're made and destroy his buildings."
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When someone gets a dub in fortnite and masturbates before or during the game won
Yo bruv I just got a special win
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A method of masturbation pertaining to positioning yourself under a running faucet in the bath tub for pleasure; while increasing the water temperature.
Jack passed out early so Jill took a special bath to enhance her date night.
The Booker Special is a secret array of outstanding moves put on a girl, of which you do not know the name of, in the bed room.
"Yo I just Booker Specialed the crap out of that girl and now I think she wants me"
"ohh yea, whats her name?"
"I'm not sure yet"
another word for weed or marijuana
luke: wanna scran some special spinach
taylor: yh sure
This term refers to when your feces enters into food (sometimes resembling nutella or chocolate).
Culinary Teacher: “Hey, how did you put so much nutella in your crepe? We ran out of nutella in last hours class.”
Student: “Ahh, dont worry. It’s just the Schmidt Special”
Drinking both beer and whiskey at once. Alternating sips between the two beverages. Any variety of beer and whiskey will do but preferably bud light bottle and jack on the rocks.
Dude I had a rough day I could really use a Hoffman Special.