[VRChat] – Midnight Haven’s Christmas Celebration (2022)

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– Asteria in a traditional European Santa outfit.

Merry Christmas! This being the second Christmas gathering of three, and one New Year’s festivities. A nice lovely pre-world exploration before the main course. Testing out my newly customized avatar in her Santa outfit, both found on Booth. Renge hasn’t gone anywhere, and she is still my main avatar in VRChat, it’s just Asteria was easier to customize while Renge’s files were still MIA. I timed out having to rely on Asteria only.

Most of my session was hanging around in desktop mode in both PC and Steam Deck (majority of images are from PC) while a small portion are from VR mode itself for testing purposes. Performance issues also forced me into desktop mode, especially when entering the K-Mart/Zellers/Sears world. Midnight Haven folks are well aware of the fact of my PC’s degradation.


Related Blog Posting:

[Midnight Haven’s Christmas World Hop]


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– Midnight Haven gathering
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– The few times I’m actually in VR Mode.
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– Just hanging around.
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– Hanging around, lurking.
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– My childhood right here, especially that ‘Hey! You! Pikachu’.

As a kid I rented out the Hey, You! Pikachu N64 copy from a local Rogers rental corner store. I wanted to play it so badly I called in sick halfway through school to be sent home (after my dad dropped me off) to start playing this. My mother had company at time time constantly asking me who I’m talking to…. I’m talking to Pikachu. I’ve actually had nice fond memories of the game, I wouldn’t mind playing more of it.

We genuinely need more of these gimmick games, especially the ‘Eyedentify’ game for PS3. I’m glad Japan has fiddled with a few gimmick games relating to voice and camera, they however need to push more of it. What I would give for a nice Busou Shinki game working on a similar concept of voice and camera.

– Eyedentify (PS3) – Never released.

(Video above is of ‘Eyedentify’, if you don’t see it that means the video broke. Feel free to Google search it.)

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I froze up having to come back under desktop mode. No VR For me tonight, sadly. All desktop mode.

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The hilarity of this moment was how I wasn’t the only one suffering, other folks were as well. I probably could have stayed in VR Mode once we left this world. Everybody else had performance issues from this world.


Freedom! We’re in a new happier performance world, and an old world I’ve been to near the beginning of VRC’s life. Ah, the fond memories. Glad to be back.

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– Even if these images are not “photogenic”, I genuinely however love flying the camera lens like a drone. Fun times.
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– While flying the camera around I noticed this user licking Asteria’s head. Caught them in the act 😉
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– Caught them in the licking act 🙂
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– Christmas monkey ready for their performance.
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– >Insert Piano instrumental performance here<
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– Everybody admiring the performance (Emotes being used).
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Funny part was how Halo theme was requested by a Velt, a Halo avatar wearing person. They sadly walked off to do their own thing having others hear the Halo theme played in piano style.

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New world time! More Christmas vibes to be had.

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– Merry Christmas! (This is why I play VRChat for my festivities).
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BLUE! YES! We meet again! And what a re-union! HAHA! So adorable! So wholesomely adorable!

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– My heart is melting from all the cuteness and wholesomeness <3
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– So precious <3
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– Poor Velt having technical troubles with his VR. He left and probably came back much later.
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– A floofy huddle-and-cuddle party going on here.
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– Everybody being cute.
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While flying my camera around I was randomly poked by a wild Hunt. He poked me, wished me a Merry Christmas, and noted my computer situation, probably. Thanks for the festive wishes 🙂

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– *Poke Poke*
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– *Jiiiiiiiiiiiiii~*
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– The Merry Hangout.
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– Funnily enough this is how it started, loosely the three of us like this before Midnight Haven took over their priorities. Hunt & Blue used to join me on our nightly adventures before Midnight Haven forcefully snatched Blue away from me, and Hunt switched priorities over to them. Everything is Midnight Haven oriented.

I partially feel bad for Blue with how popular they are; How people have “violently” snatched them away at times by prying them away from me leaving me fuming at one point, or few times. But hey, at least I get to see them in a more positive and festive mood this year. What I’m referencing occurred a few years prior, when I was still in a stable situation before my move to a roommate’s place.

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– Pestering Hunt for their foxy mug.
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Walking into a wacky ‘Jojo’ gathering. People cloning one another’s avatar to have some random Jojo fun.

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– These two are always together.

A world hop later……. Japanese streets, eh?

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– Capturing a photogenic moment.
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– Crazy crude Bugs Bunny humour was to be had. Someone laughed their head off hitting it on a ceiling, dying on the floor in laughter and pain.
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– Laughter and pain going together hand in hand.
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After much lurking, walking around, and exploring a wild Kobi appeared.

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– Hey! It’s a Kobi!
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– How menacing. If unintentionally. Nice to see Kobi though!
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I’m thankful Kobi joined up, he however sadly had to do his festive things. Short-lived, if a neat meet-up.


Oh? Final world to check up on.

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– Oh? An AFK’ing Hunt.
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– Amused how these Christmas worlds are worlds I’m fairly familiar with as an early VRChat user.
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– Waiting up on Hunt.
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– Oh, he’s back.
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– Midnight Haven’s Christmas group photo.

I was genuinely there, as proof in this blog posting. I had to insert my Renge avatar on the far right of the image to highlight I was actually there. I’ll upload two other images later with late 2022 elements.

  • Placeholder 1 (Festive Renge)
  • Placeholder 2 (Festive Asteria)

Was an awesome hangout, even in its desktop mode amusements. I’m amused to see I wasn’t the only one having VR troubles when in that retail nostalgia world, I still however stayed in desktop mode even after that world hop. Need to make sure I didn’t get disconnected, or miss anything. I however left a bit early having missed out on a group photo at the end. I’m happy to have meet up with Hunt, Blue, Kobi, and many others. I’m glad I was acknowledged there, and have headpats to make me happy. Headpats! All the headpats!

Merry Christmas!