From d412674e242ade988a5880572f477aee1eccf3da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:51:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Silicons have 66% understanding of uncommon roundstart
 languages (#90642)

## About The Pull Request

Silicons have 66% understanding of uncommon roundstart languages

## Why It's Good For The Game

Joke reason:


![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/12f9ede6-d808-4b61-848a-dcc8a38df6c9)

Serious reason: I understand why the original change was made, and the
points mentioned in the PR were very valid. But at the same time, I
think silicons being unable to parse most languages is a flavor fail. My
thoughts are using partial languages as a compromise would assuage the
concerns of the original PR while still giving us some of the flavor of
omniscient AI. If you disagree (Particularly you JohnFulpWillard) feel
free to close this.

(And of course we can always tweak the number. I had the thought of
adjusting the % of given languages depending on how close they are to
common - so languages like Voltaic are much lower, ~20%.)

## Changelog

:cl: Melbert
add: Cyborgs and the AI have regained understanding of various non-human
languages, but only partially (66%).
/:cl:
---
 code/modules/language/_language_holder.dm  | 8 ++++++++
 code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/code/modules/language/_language_holder.dm b/code/modules/language/_language_holder.dm
index cb8cf2b39a1..79172b72e50 100644
--- a/code/modules/language/_language_holder.dm
+++ b/code/modules/language/_language_holder.dm
@@ -457,6 +457,14 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_INIT(prototype_language_holders, init_language_holder_prototypes())
 		/datum/language/machine = list(LANGUAGE_ATOM),
 	)
 
+/// For intelligent synthetics like cyborgs and the AI, not for basic baby bots ran on a raspberry pi
+/datum/language_holder/synthetic/silicon
+
+/datum/language_holder/synthetic/silicon/New(atom/new_owner)
+	. = ..()
+	for(var/lang in GLOB.uncommon_roundstart_languages)
+		grant_partial_language(lang, 66, LANGUAGE_ATOM)
+
 /datum/language_holder/moth
 	understood_languages = list(
 		/datum/language/common = list(LANGUAGE_ATOM),
diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm
index 96e650d8c1e..1937cd3d4a5 100644
--- a/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/silicon.dm
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 	verb_ask = "queries"
 	verb_exclaim = "declares"
 	verb_yell = "alarms"
-	initial_language_holder = /datum/language_holder/synthetic
+	initial_language_holder = /datum/language_holder/synthetic/silicon
 	bubble_icon = "machine"
 	mob_biotypes = MOB_ROBOTIC
 	death_sound = 'sound/mobs/non-humanoids/cyborg/borg_deathsound.ogg'