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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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
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Codes
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My one and only VOG run. Dropped at the end. I think it was Bungie's way of telling me to raid more.
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I earned it, I bought it from Xur.........lol,,,
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Bought it at a discount from Xur, he promised it was legit. I have my concerns.
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Mine came from crota hard.
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Edited by suggestedpigeon: 8/20/2015 1:01:16 PMI held square on the abyss chest. Nearly broke a sweat I earned it so hard. I've since gotten three or four more, I don't remember from where though.
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both of mine came from the crucible, one from a silver trials package and the other from a game of clash
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Atheon hard right before Xur sold it :)
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Edited by CastIronRyu: 8/20/2015 5:59:29 AMDropped in a Nightfall. Second one dropped in another Nightfall a week later. Got my third one from an Engram a month later. One for each of my characters. All this in about two months after I bought the game.
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Raid,Nightfall then 28 Poe chest
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First ever 28 PoE chest
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I lucked out with a cryptarch package, nightfall, ToO package, PoE chest (1st time), and then bought one from xur just because.
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Deathsinger x2, Crota x1, and Nightfall x1
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Bought mine the first time he sold it cause that shit looked cool in the live action trailer.
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The VERY first time I got y hands on sweet gjally was the first time I ran through poe on my warlock and got it out of the chest, the second time was when I did crota on hard mode, and the third time I got it from a nightfall
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Got a purple Legendary engram, The Cryptarch clearly got his hole that day and blessed my RNG that day Simples!!
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My first one dropped when i jumped into the abyss first door.2nd was crota.3rd was nightfall.never bought one..
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First one from silver trials package second from nightfall been playing since September
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Nf, crucible and I suck at it and the VOG.
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Nightfall
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nf and crota
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Got destiny at launch. Did every single thing that had a chance to give an exotic for a gally chance. Missed only a few weeks due to being out of town or a new game I was super hyped for. (Just mh4u and Xenoblade 3ds). Rngesus never graced me with gally. Said screw this I've got 13 hawk moons, 8 vex mythoclasts and 5 truths over this year. Ima buy it from xur and enjoy it's full power before it gets nurfed.
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With 17 strange coins the second week of the game