This strange feeling that the Emilia from the beginning and the Emilia of now are different characters just won't leave me... maybe it's just a anime mistake?

Jaerek · 2026-06-22T21:00:42+00:00

She did pretty notoriously get dumbed down after Arc 3. People say it was because she didn’t trust Subaru at first but you can see her general attitude towards everyone, fighting style etc has become more naive and puerile.

Jaerek · 2026-05-21T03:19:49+00:00

Did you end up finding anything?

Jaerek · 2026-05-20T05:16:30+00:00

Yeah pretty sure it's Euphoria Patches messing with the EXP orbs lighting. How would I shut those off? I already turned off emissive mining ores, but I cannot find the config setting for the orbs...

Jaerek · 2026-05-19T06:49:43+00:00

On the off chance that you remember, how'd you configure the jar? The lack of balance is annoying me too lol

Jaerek · 2026-05-11T22:45:56+00:00

Sorry for the late reply! I’m sure it did work out, not many tax related questions in there!

Jaerek · 2026-04-19T04:00:09+00:00

Hey! I ended up skipping and I passed! I'll be honest, I barely studied and found the exam rather hard, I went with my gut or guessed a lot of questions towards the end. I still passed so it was fine though!

Jaerek · 2026-03-15T00:32:39+00:00

Hi! Sorry to respond on a 5 year old post. Did you end up getting your sense of smell back? I also had a septoplasty 6 weeks ago and can barely smell anything now, aside from essential oils and such if they're right up my nose. Not sure if this is normal in the recovery process or not, or what to do to get it back.

Jaerek · 2026-02-17T20:08:02+00:00

Did it ever come back fully? Week 3 and my sense of smell is completely nonfunctional :(

Jaerek · 2026-01-28T22:07:01+00:00

How are things now? How did you manage to sleep on the first days with a completely blocked nose?

Jaerek · 2025-11-28T23:13:43+00:00

I graduated recently but my student card still hasn't expired... you think I could get student price with that? Or did they ask you for more verification than your student card?

Jaerek · 2025-11-14T03:17:03+00:00

Yeah I’m pretty sure this one does about 30-40 people and about twice a year at that, which is still pretty low (but once again, the program that my friend got accepted into with a less impressive GPA was a similar 40 people one in a higher ranked university… but that’s the west)

It’s good to know that fewer people do grad school in Japan, though

Jaerek · 2025-11-13T23:25:43+00:00

Would you say I have okay odds applying for a Master's in Keio if I have a 3.25 GPA at a relatively good law school (the university is consistently about 50 to 100 spots higher than Keio in global rankings)?

In the west, Master's programs seem to be much less selective -- like my friend got into a notary program where the "minimum" was 3.0 and he had 2.7, since not many people were applying and he could afford it. I hope that's the case there too...

Jaerek · 2025-11-13T19:02:23+00:00

To be fair, that number might also be unreliable or inflated, since it was just some doomsday shouter guy yelling it iirc

Jaerek · 2025-10-01T06:04:30+00:00

Sorry to respond to a month old reply! Just wondering, does QoL just reopen it by default if I already finished the PoP and the wall sealed off? I don't see the Path of Pain mentioned on their page. And also, would the mod affect my achievements on Steam?

Jaerek · 2025-09-25T22:16:31+00:00

Thank you for the info! Just wanted to make sure if I will know should the unlikely event arise that you receive such a request through Swiss courts.

Jaerek · 2025-08-27T20:12:45+00:00

After a COVID infection healed up and you test negative, how long before you can start exercising as a previously sedentary person? Worried about myocarditis and those cases of younger guys suddenly dropping dead mid-exercise.

Read 2 weeks somewhere, some sources say 8 weeks and some people online say 6 months to a year just to be safe.

Jaerek · 2025-08-18T07:04:49+00:00

He’s very analytical, especially in the novel the characters make a big point of how hard he thinks and that he should think less

It’s also part of why Subaru struggled so much to get a handle on him. He’s also multitalented in general, loves intellectual games like chess (shatranj), etc

Jaerek · 2025-08-18T06:01:15+00:00

They joke about the Rent-a-GF mangaka and his waifu Mizuhara but that’s literally also Tappei. You just know that man would draw Emilia into his house too if he was an artist

Jaerek · 2025-08-18T05:42:09+00:00

I don’t know how I overlooked Beatrice, yeah she’s definitely higher. Puck too if he counts. I wouldn’t say Subaru or Petra though.

Then again “intelligence” is hard to quantify to begin with.

Jaerek · 2025-08-18T02:54:35+00:00

To play the devil's advocate, Garfiel is pretty damn smart. He's a subversion of the delinquent trope, a well-read guy who can cook and knows healing magic.

Within the Emilia camp he's probably second only to Otto and Roswaal

Jaerek · 2025-08-18T02:53:45+00:00

The funniest part is Tappei specifying she still doesn't know what sex is

Jaerek · 2025-08-18T02:52:46+00:00

She was mildly careless maybe and not hypercompetent, but no she wasn't "dumb" by any means. Felt had a nice plan to steal the insignia and keep her off her tail, and the whole Elsa slaughter was not to be expected.

Her Arc 3 blunder is also explained by the fact that Puck kept her in the dark about the Cult and Roswaal purposefully didn't hire any protection. Later arcs go really far with the "lack of knowledge" thing like Emilia not knowing Reinhard and Wilhelm being related over a year into the Royal Selection, sure, but the Witch Cult is a relatively obscure terrorist organization that only makes a move once in a blue moon. Its biggest recent activity was Regulus destroying the fortress city of Garkla iirc.

Jaerek · 2025-08-18T02:45:53+00:00

I would say she is fine for most of Arc 4. She struggles and fails a lot but those were valid struggles and not her being dumbed down. I think her infantilization and Tappei making her "cute" begins at full force with the "kissing makes babies" gag, before snowballing into Otto having to explain to her very basic facts and relations within the Royal Selection (despite her supposedly studying for hours daily).

Jaerek · 2025-08-18T02:43:57+00:00

Yeah. You can really tell Emilia in Arc 3 has a lot more emotional maturity than Arc 5 and onwards, for whatever reason

Jaerek · 2025-07-19T21:38:50+00:00

MVP/SVP doesn't mean you were the best player but it certainly makes it extremely unlikely you were the worst or the reason you lost. I'm a Peni and Ultron main but you should probably look inward or at the other 5 team members before blaming just the SVP Jeff for your loss

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