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Edited by Derpbot Alpha:
8/17/2015 4:49:54 PM
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How did you "earn" YOUR Gjallarhorn?
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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Found it in your mom
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death singer then double drop from crota back when he double dropped shit for no reason
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My first came from a nightfall. Joined on the boss and killed 2 things. Ghorn. Definitely earned.
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Deathsinger... The same day xur sold ghorn hahaha
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Bought it from Xûr in the secret room under the Templar in VoG. Just had to pay him with a Fate Bringer.
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#1 gorgon chest #2 nightfall #3 nightfall
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Xur sold it week one release
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I bought it from Xur!
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Engram, then strike, then I deletes one, and 10 minutes later got the truth as well.
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First nightfall with the help of some kind strangers. One of those feel good stories.
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1 ReplyHow I "Earned" the Jellyhorn. I worked 50-60hrs per week and in my spare when all the house is asleep I raid. 2 from Crota + 1 from Xur "Earned" don't make me laugh!
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Sucked off bungie
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I played the game.
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I played the game
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Purple engram
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I just got number 3 from flawless trials run
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I earned all 3 of mine doing vog, crota and 1 from crucible
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From Crota, 2 dropped in the same game to me and a clan mate, in the next game one person got 2 from Crota!!
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Poe 34.
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Legit I was grinding for strange coins to buy it from xur and I got it from a level 28 strike, I was so happy and mad lol
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After watching all of my friends and teammates get 2-3+ over the course of a year and then buying one from Xur...not as exciting as I thought finally getting one would be since I had to buy one instead of getting the drop.
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I got both from Nightfall. However I never grinded for it and I barely use mine anyway.
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My first VoG norm Atheon 2nd nightfall 3rd nightfall both on the same week.
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Had to grind weekly's, nightfalls, Raids and PoE for almost a year before this weekend. Yeah I earned it.
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After 1400 hours of playing DESTINY I pulled (RNG) my first one about 6 weeks ago out of the the Exotics chest on Atheon Raid. My last two I purchased from Xur using the Strange Coins that I EARNED and saved!
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got my first one from playing Control, i had 2 kills, 4 assists and .3 k/d in the entire match
