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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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  • Nightfall Valus Solar burn

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  • I did not earn it and it was my first exotic!! Cant believe is is selling it! Buying two more now.

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  • I didn't earn it. It randomly dropped for me as a reward because Destiny is mostly RNG.

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  • 1st- Xur 2nd- Xur 3rd- Xur

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  • Going flawless on first time [spoiler]closest thing to earning and still random[/spoiler]

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  • Crota's end hard mode after Ir Yût. Not really "earning" though

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  • I'm pretty pissed. Was getting on to get strange coins to buy it. Did the night fall and it dropped. Lmao what are the odds

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  • In RGN based game, you either have it or not, doesnt matter how.

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  • 1st from being a ledge monkey 2nd from deathsinger (sitting in the back sniping) 3rd Poe lvl 28 (nuff said) 4th Gorgon chest 5th nightfall So just like OP. Nothing spectacular to "earn" one lol

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  • RNG kid not earn

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    • A random number generator (RNG) is a computational or physical device designed to generate a sequence of numbers or symbols that lack any pattern, i.e. appear random. The many applications of randomness have led to the development of several different methods for generating random data. Many of these have existed since ancient times, including dice, coin flipping, the shuffling of playing cards, the use of yarrow stalks (by divination) in the I Ching, and many other techniques. Because of the mechanical nature of these techniques, generating large numbers of sufficiently random numbers (important in statistics) required a lot of work and/or time. Thus, results would sometimes be collected and distributed as random number tables. Nowadays, after the advent of computational random number generators, a growing number of government-run lotteries, and lottery games, are using RNGs instead of more traditional drawing methods. RNGs are also used today to determine the odds of modern slot machines.[1] Several computational methods for random number generation exist. Many fall short of the goal of true randomness — though they may meet, with varying success, some of the statistical tests for randomness intended to measure how unpredictable their results are (that is, to what degree their patterns are discernible). However, carefully designed cryptographically secure computationally based methods of generating random numbers do exist, such as those based on the Yarrow algorithm and the Fortuna (PRNG) and others.

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    • Edited by Wahck: 8/15/2015 2:58:04 AM
      Bought my first in week 2, and I stopped counting after 16 RNG drops since then, my first being from exotic chest in vog

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    • Edited by War Whale 81: 8/15/2015 2:51:54 AM
      After about 4-5 months of playing, I'd given up on even trying to get it. I got it in crucible. Was a great day. I think it was February or March when I looted it.

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    • I like how people use the word "earn" so lightly.

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      • [i]i earned mine by winning a staring contest with rahool. Gave me a stupid rocket launcher as a prize. [/i]

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      • With the 60 dollars I bought the game with

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      • Bought my first from xur last time he sold it and everyone thought it was useless.

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      • Here's how I earned my most recent one(last week) while running 3 guys who didn't have Gjallarhorn through Crota. TUCKFEXAS is the only other one in there besides me with Gally. #TruEarner™

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      • 2 months ago ran vog normal and hard on all three characters didnt get it then moved to crota did it 2 on different characters on the 3rd character killed crota noting but a word of crota go to orbit check my inventory and there she was in all her glory the ghorn, Earned, some may say RNG But running over 9 raids like i always do on reset i feel I've earned it something none of you will feel, a sense of accomplishment go ahead say im salty say grow up but it was awesome. CONGRATS TO THE DAY 1 PLAYERS and alpha players who it never dropped for you earned it buy it from xur and buy lots of heavy synthesis but for the ones who have under 2000 grimore and fail to beat vog nornal or couldn't down crota or finish Poe with out gally you my friends are no guardians...

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        • No I got if from rng I didn't earn shit

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        • Nightfall like a month before how

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        • Got it through a legendary engram :^)

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        • Engram on day 2, Crotato, Xur

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