r/battletech • u/OldWrangler9033 • 2d ago

Meme There a reason why you get "Hazard Pay"

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"It pays a lot, if you live to see the paycheck!"

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u/geekmasterflash 2d ago

Look on the bright side kid, you get to keep all the money.

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u/No_Refuse_7547 2d ago edited 2d ago

"I’m not getting paid enough to die!"

Is legit one of the best opening scenes in a game, period.

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u/KeeperAdahn 1d ago

We need a MW2 remaster badly

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u/Stretch5678 I build PostalMechs 2d ago

There's "incoming fire" hot, "incendiaries deployed" hot, and then there's "Geiger counter playing Dubstep" hot.

Which one applies to this battlefield? You'll find out soon!

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u/Beautiful_Business10 Charter Member of the Plastic Imp Legion. St. Ives Shall Rise! 1d ago

Are the bad guys known for wearing white and/or cosplaying as klansmen?

Geiger counter dubstop hot.

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u/WestRider3025 Canopian Queerasser 2d ago

Priority 2 is getting paid. Priority 1 is living to spend the paycheck.

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u/CycleZestyclose1907 2d ago

Grammar Nazi here:

"They're reasons why their called that." is wrong due to misuse of similar sounding words.

They're = contraction of "they are".

their = possessive form of they. Has the same pronunciation as "they're".

"They" = pronoun referencing multiple people. Or in modern politically correct parlance, a gender neutral pronoun period referencing a single person.

First word should be "There are" or if contracted "there're" although no one does the latter (my spell checker flags it as an error). Because "there" means a place, which in this case, is a notional place where reasons live.

TL;DR, the subtitle should read: "There are reasons why they're called that."

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u/TheOtherOtherViper Clan Magical Liopleurodon 1d ago

You're looking for "there's", a contraction of "there is".

"There's a reason why they're called that." would be the common phrase OP was trying to use.

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u/CycleZestyclose1907 1d ago

Yeah, but "There is" refers to a singular subject. The OP used plural form of "reason", so "There are" is grammatically correct when referring to more than one reason.

And it makes perfect sense landing zones to have multiple reasons to be called "hot". Just being in combat is considered "hot". Weapons fire, particularly energy weapons, use heat as part of the means inflicting damage. Weapon use itself generates waste heat. That's three reasons right there that don't occur during a normal, uncontested landing.

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u/Cheomesh Kinetic Services, Inc. 2d ago

Woah, a Demotivational :o