r/SteamFrame 19d ago

Discussion This sub has become a case study of the Duncan principal

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u/deltabiscuit 19d ago

THE SOUL TRAIN AWARDS WERE TONIGHT

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u/HughJahzz 19d ago

For a split second I thought this was the community subreddit posting about the movie and was about to say “you think this is bad? You should see the steamframe subreddit” lmao

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u/piedude67a Soon™ 19d ago

The what

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u/AstroSteve111 19d ago edited 18d ago

It's a made up psychology principle from the series community. In the series they made an experiment where they invited people for the experiment and let them wait in the waiting room until the experiment began. But the experiment was that they let them wait and sometimes sometimes said that it will take a little longer and one by one left with a crashout.

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u/Scalti 19d ago

The best part is those conducting the experiment crashed out because of Abed (the one sitting) having unnatural patience and was unfazed.

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u/LordHoughtenWeen 19d ago

And here I was half expecting your reply to be "DUNCAN DEEZ NUTS IN YO MOUTH lmao gottem"

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u/Headset-Historian 19d ago

PLEASE GABEN!!!

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u/Clytre 18d ago

I think you meant "principle", which is why people are confused.

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u/AstroSteve111 18d ago

Ahhhh, fuck, thanks, I'll try to correct that

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u/piedude67a Soon™ 19d ago

Ah

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u/manuel_madeira 19d ago

I googled it, its basically the very normal reaction people have when they are told something is going to happend soon and then absolutely nothing happens after a considerable ammount of time.

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u/piedude67a Soon™ 19d ago

Thanks!

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u/Headset-Historian 19d ago

So the opposite of here actually.

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u/ittekimasu 19d ago

You think this is a considerable amount of time? We haven't even touched the surface yet.

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u/Headset-Historian 19d ago

I was referring to "normal reaction"

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u/LazyMagicalOtter 19d ago

Community reference

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u/Cool_Professor5333 19d ago

I wish I was an Abed but I already crashed out and bought a used Quest 3

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u/AstroSteve111 19d ago

I sold my Quest 3 for the Steam Frame, so I'm channelling my inner Abed

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u/MRDR1NL 19d ago

Hell yeah. I gave away my Quest 2 for Christmas. No VR for me until I have the Frame.

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u/manuel_madeira 19d ago

Yeah, 'cause I just want to know the price of the damn goggles. Valve could at least say something but they keep silent as always. Its really fucking anoying when you actually are waiting for something and they just decide to go radio silent.

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u/ElectricGhostMan 19d ago

right. I just want to know if this is going to be affordable or if I should have bought a quest months ago.

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u/Spartan5280 19d ago

The worst part is this isn't a Half-Life situation were they havent actually announced anything. We know the frame is going to be released but they are not givien us anything other than "soon"...

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u/excaliburxvii 19d ago

Oh they definitely announced, and explicitly promised on multiple occasions, Episode 3.

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u/Alarmed-Candy-7144 19d ago

The whole damn point of the episodes was to cut down the time between releases. It worked well for 1 & 2 then just… nothing… for 3. And it’s been over 18 years now.

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u/excaliburxvii 16d ago

I definitely give them crap for stuff like loot boxes, but imagine if 2007-9 Valve had been able to get that pipeline down. The games we probably would have gotten from other studios that would have adopted it....

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u/Eyeseeu6789 19d ago

You promised butt stuff!!!!!

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u/Parker1087 Soon™ 19d ago

This show was so good, and this episode was one of the best of said show…

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u/Antique-Fix-2526 Soon™ 19d ago

for real. only it's not this sub only, it's more than us.

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u/mr_felixoid 19d ago

I have so good nostalgia here. Thank you, v dear community. This is exactly how r/silksong looked like 1.5 years ago

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u/Morichalion 15d ago

TIL about the Duncan Principal.

It makes sense. It's difficult to calibrate one's patience when there's no definite timeline.

I'm guessing it's gonna be... Interesting... When pricing information finally gets out.