Remember the family with the toddler? They’re coming back to watch Captain America: The Winter Soldier. They had a hard time watching Thor: The Dark World, which was fine, but Cap is actually good so it’s time to find some subtitles.
We’ve been watching them on DVD with my old Playstation 3, and they don’t have a subtitle option for Russian. It’s time to go to the internet.
Roommate: Okay! The home theater PC is up and running and the movie is ready to go.
Me: Awesome. I’ll dig up a subtitle file.
Me: This site looks like a virus.
Roommate: These three sites also look like viruses.
Me: HERE! This one is legit.
Roommate: Plug it in.
Computer: You’re trying to watch Captain America? Awesome, here ya go:
Us: This is not Russian. Or… anything, really.
Roommate: Try another file!
Me: It’s doING THE SAME THING
Roommate: I don’t understand. Do we need a new file, or…
Us, in unison: We need the Russian font!
Jilly: Cyrillic font.
Us, in unison: We need the Cyrillic font!
Roommate: Okay, it’s installed.
Computer: Haha cool
All 3 of us: What in tarnation
Roommate: Google says… there’s a hidden setting in VLC we need to use!
Hidden setting: I got you fam.
Everyone: IT WORKS!
Me, over text: Hey Cait, good news! We got the Russian subtitles working, so your Ukrainian friends can enjoy the movie!
Cait: Oh yeah
Cait: They can’t make it this week.
Us: …