From c8697ec4d9e032e9dd4edb08cd57c979abafed25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aronai Sieyes <arokha@arokha.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:43:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #11003

---
 .../carbon/human/species/station/protean_vr/protean_blob.dm | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/human/species/station/protean_vr/protean_blob.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/human/species/station/protean_vr/protean_blob.dm
index c1f3a82101..65692d14ac 100644
--- a/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/human/species/station/protean_vr/protean_blob.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mob/living/carbon/human/species/station/protean_vr/protean_blob.dm
@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@
 		healing.expire()
 	return ..()
 
+/mob/living/simple_mob/protean_blob/say_understands(var/mob/other, var/datum/language/speaking = null)
+	// The parent of this proc and its parent are SHAMS and should be rewritten, but I'm not up to it right now.
+	if(!speaking)
+		return TRUE // can understand common, they're like, a normal person thing
+	return ..()
+
 /mob/living/simple_mob/protean_blob/speech_bubble_appearance()
 	return "synthetic"