I don't think I need to tell anybody that there's been a lot of salt thrown around recently by folks lamenting the fact that they had to "earn" their Haller Haller Get Gjaller, and now anybody can just buy one.
The thing is though, by definition, if anybody that had one from a drop did actually earn it, they did so only by running the one activity that granted them the drop (and by extension getting to whatever level let them run that activity). That could have been the very first thing they had ever run that could grant you an exotic, and they'd have landed on the Jellyhorn. Nothing else affected the chances, and any belief to the contrary illustrates the Gambler's Fallacy.
That led me to thinking, what did those of us who got Ballerhorn in a drop [i]really[/i] do to "earn" the (until recently) rarest of guns?
So without further ado, I'd like to be the first to recount the legendary tale of how I "earned" my GGhorn.
Comment with your "epic tale" and let's see just how hard we all had to work! ;)
I hopped into a 5 man Normal Atheon fight and died during it.
#Gjallarhorn #IEarnedIt
tl;dr ITT share stories of any low effort "feats" you accomplished that gave you a Gjallarhorn drop, demonstrating the lack of a correlation between effort and reward, thus disproving that RNG counts as "earning" any more than Xûr does.
Edit: Now with 20% more quotation marks so everyone gets the joke
Edit 2: It occurs to me that in the original post I failed to mention the fact that for some, their YOLOhorn dropped after a particularly difficult feat, such that they really do feel that they earned theirs. My point is not to lessen the sense of accomplishment anyone felt after acquiring their Yellerhorn, but rather to highlight the fact that due to RNG, many of us "earned" ours in really easy/silly ways, and to invite the people who are sad/angry/disappointed at everyone's favorite Splatoon cosplayer to think about whether RNG really qualifies as earning something.
Cheers, all, and welcome to the Wolfpack!
Edit 3: Alterations to second paragraph regarding the description of what anyone who got a Gjally drop did that directly resulted in that drop. Also added tl;dr
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Edited by UselessTerror: 8/20/2015 9:56:32 PMBy sucking so much the game actually felt bad for me and gave me one.
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Bought 3 from Xur. Two Nightfall runs later, it drops. RNGesus laughed. Under 400 hours, BTW. Oh, the randomness. The random, random, randomness.
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One day before Xur sold it, I got it from deathsinger drop.
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recently doing Croat hard. As a 34. We did it faster than you can kill a strike boss
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I bought one from Xur one week 2 and later got additional ones from the Deathsinger, Big chest at end of POE and two from Nightfall(on the same day). I still have 4 of the 5.
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Getting it from a boss drop is RNG. You [b][i]do NOT[/i][/b] earn RNG.
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I bought 10 from Xur and dismantled 5.
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Dropped from Atheon and Destiny was never the same after..
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You can't earn it. It randomly drops
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Edited by SenfFeetPics: 8/20/2015 12:58:13 PMYou don't earn, I only give. [spoiler]mainly to the poorest performers and give shit to the people who actually did well. [/spoiler] [spoiler]i myself got one from nightfall, then 2 days later Atheon normal. Then deathsinger hard. Then a flawless ToO run.[/spoiler]
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I bought it from xur you earn strange coins the same way you can find a ghorn I don't see the difference
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Solod Sekrion nightfall with void burn and got ghally as my reward
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The first strike I did on my first character about 10 mins after hitting level 20 I earned mine in a drop. [spoiler]satire[/spoiler]
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Edited by Korupted916: 8/20/2015 8:50:39 PMI earned it like everyone else, by playing Destiny. Serious note, played Destiny since alpha, passed on it week2 because I was saving coins for armor pieces. That turned out to be a big mistake because it never got it to drop. Finally got it off Xur. Better late then never I guess.
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Punched a level 2 dreg in the face on patrol on cosmodrome.
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Off the codes on the exclusive destiny pop tart case
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Having no health on crota hard and killed crota and dodged everything. I wish had proof. If you watch prodigys I AM A NINJA video, thats what it was like and yes it was before house of wolves.
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I earned the strange coins that I bought my gjallerhorn with
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Legendary engram. Vog chest. Nightfall. Poe chest. Crota. Atheon. I think ive gotten it from every avenue actually.
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A few weekly heroic strikes!
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4th place in the crucible. Earned the absolute -blam!- out of it!
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Got mine from a crota hard i didn't even want to do, was actually rather depressed that day. Was pleasantly surprised. Next two came from nightfalls... I really wanted etheric light though...
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Vog exotic chest.
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I had moved to germany for work, I was in a hotel that had internet but the only way I could use my xbox was if I shared the conection through my laptop. Needless to say my conection would last 10 minutes at most. I got into a nightfall with my 2 friends from home, I probably disconnected 10 times, lag was so bad I had to stay back. We finally got to the archon. At one point they had both died, one backed out and was going to rejoin again, hoping that my conection would hold. I ran out for the other guy, got killed, resurrected, saved my friend and got disconnected seconds later. We all reconnected, killed the boss and I got disconnected at the rewards screen. They all got coins and I got the ghallahorn. Lmao