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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2nd nightfall
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Bought it week 2.
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First one was xur [spoiler]week 2[/spoiler]
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Desthsinger VOG chest 2 Nightfalls and Legendary engram
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Vault of Glass and POE is where I got both of mine.
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Dropped for me at the end of a hard crota run the night before Xûr sold it!!
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And i a.... Got mine from a nightfall yesterday ;)
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Oh I, without a doubt, "[u]EARNED[/u]" my Gjallarhorn from the legendary engram that dropped when my friend killed a dreg while I was in the bathroom not helping with the archon priest boss fight at all.
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I will be buying it today. And I don't feel bad at all since I haven't "earned" it yet in almost 1200 hours of gameplay.
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I turned my xbox on and bought six with my digital dubloons. As i pay for the energy, house, xbox and game - whats it to you 8itch?
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Crota , Crota Crota death singer nightfall nightfall
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Edited by BelovedSonofGod: 8/15/2015 5:16:14 PMI farmed characters over and over to run them through Crota when I was going for my crux when HM first dropped. Got the gally in the abyss chest when it was still exotic. I earned it bc I farmed so many characters to get my crux.
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I didn't get it at all by random chance after a mission. I completed BMT and Tech School, then I came home and Xur was selling it. So I gathered up coins really fast and bought it.
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Jumped into a control match that the team I got put on was down 18k to 8k, went 2-4 and dropped ghorn. #iearnedit
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I got my g-horn from the exotic VOG chest a month ago. I was so happy.
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I got it from a gorgon chest, literally 2 days before he sold it. Then I bought a second one
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nightfall
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3rd day of HoW. Got it from prison chest on my titan.
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Game of control on twilight gap, came third in the losing team, properly earned it
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Let's see I hugged xur really hard and he gave it to me
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*Skip down to the ### for my real "epic tale" on getting Ghorn* Well technically didn't "earn" it on my account. I have close to 400 hours (even though I've been playing since day 1. Took a break for a few months) and I just RECENTLY started playing again the past month. But in all the time time I've played, it never dropped. From anything I've done. So I bought with the strange coins I EARNED after grinding and the 400 hours on the game. ### So my girlfriend just recently got into Destiny. Bought her the game, and all the DLC. Pre-ordered TTK for her. She has a total of 70ish hours play time. She's decent, but still learning. But lately she hasn't had internet for the past week. So when I saw Xûr selling the Ghorn, I decided to log onto her player, on my ps3. Was doing the nightfall (hoping for strange coins since she had none) killed the boss, and behold what dropped for her. Ghorn. Didnt have to buy it. She technically "earned it" right? Needless to say, I was pleased, and upset xD sorry for the long pointless story. Cp
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Crota ,poe vog chest x2
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I bought mines from xur, but i think i deserved it more than most people that randomly got it, over 700 hours, do my 3 nightfalls and raids every tuesday, been flawless on osiris, so yeah just because i got it doesn't mean anything i deserve it less...
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I recently earned mine on the nightfall on reset day this week
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From my strange coins I been collecting since day one
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A couple of months ago I got lucky after we downed Crota, RNGeezus blessed me that day. I'm glad people can buy it, noob or not.