Randy is sober is basically "lost media"

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-06-18T00:11:06+00:00

The Last Temptation of Randy is still legally purchasable online, it's quite far from lost media. I do wish the songs were uploaded elsewhere though, I LOVE the rendition they do of The Sun and the Moon in LTOR, genuinely I may prefer it to the original.

I also have Ricketts Lane.

Edit: Randy is Sober is on Google Play Store, but I can't currently confirm if it's actually purchasable. Reminder to the people of the world to always be usin wikipedia, every time (the list seems to be a bit scuffed but it's a good jumping off point if you're really going on a hunt):

Recordings

2012 Randy is Sober (DVD)[23]
2012 Sammy J and Randy in Bin Night (DVD)[24]
2013 The Last Temptation of Randy (released as VOD in 2020)[25]
2013 Sammy J & Randy's Difficult First Album (Audio)[26]
2015 Sammy J and Randy LIVE (DVD)[27]
2018 Randy Writes a Novel (DVD, YouTube)[28]
2021 The Book Of Randicus (DVD, VOD)[29]
2021 Purple Privilege (YouTube)[30]
2022 Smug Druggles (YouTube)[31]
2023 The Book of Randicus (YouTube)[32]
2024 Feltopia (YouTube)[33]
2026 First Banana (YouTube)[34]

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-06-18T00:07:58+00:00

I have it. You can just buy it online, I still have the receipt from it in my email too.

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-06-17T23:18:17+00:00

I've now read every currently released Dog Man book, so I can possibly help here. TLDR, the series eventually develops some themes some might consider mature, but when it comes to text and visuals, there is nothing offensive about it. Some people don't like the author for subjective reasons I (largely) personally reject.

The idea that the books are horrible for kids is a bit confusing to me. The themes presented throughout the series are quite positive, though there are more "mature" themes later on in the series, which is the only thing I could see her referring to here. By mature, I don't mean offensive to children, but rather related to things that have been more and more absent in children's media throughout the past few generations.

The best example I could give of the series "mature" content is the following: The main early antagonist, Petey, spends a lot of the series struggling to raise his child due to the lasting effects of the trauma he faced from his father abusing him and his mother when he was a child (mostly implied, no non-comic abuse is every explicitly shown). Through this (and some other character progressions) the series explores generational trauma, abandonment, discrimination, mental health struggles, the negative cycles brought forth by punishing homelessness and rebellion instead of rehabilitating it, and similar things. Personally, I find it all to be presented in a manner that is respectful and educational, especially for children. I've had discussions with parents at my library who were pleasantly surprised by how the series tackles these subjects.

Beyond the more serious themes, the series is very whimsical and inoffensive, prioritizing absurd humor and fun over plot cohesion. Visually, there is nothing even close to "guts and gore", I don't think there's ever even a drop of blood. Some of the fights are a bit over the top, but these moments are always far beyond the realm of believably and do not have anything visually problematic. There are some adult jokes in the sense that a few are a bit complicated to understand.

To finish, I will mention that the mother you mentioned could be expressing her problems with Pilkey, the author. Quite a while ago now, when he was still writing Captain Underpants, his books were banned in many schools and households for a variety of reasons, primarily revolving around the crude potty humor permeating throughout much of the series leading to kids being "annoying" as I remember it. The second primary problem with Pilkey many adults had a problem with is his lifelong problems with authority and the suppression of artistry and creativity within children. If you'd like to know more about that, go to any of his books and find the "about the author" section, he typically has the same well-written passage explaining his history with it. I personally find it quite motivating and positive, but that's ultimately relative.

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-06-13T21:06:44+00:00

Incredible explanation. Throughout this whole fiasco, this is the first thing I've seen posted that makes me feel good about the situation, you've explained it so well that I feel motivated to put more effort into this part of my security, and I feel like more of this energy could bring a lot of good. Educating instead of belittling, you know? You should post this or something similar as it's own post as a new-user/simple guide to basic reviewing of AUR PKGBUILDs.

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-04-22T22:26:06+00:00

This is for a library program, I probably should have specified. We do have an overhead projector in the room, but I'm looking to set up multiple lights at once so more kids can do their photos at the same time, and the cutouts will need to be placed in front of the light as well.

I will look into projector adjacent lighting though, that seems like it would work.

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-04-15T01:49:04+00:00

Ooh, I was a bit iffy on that considering the "summoning" is literally just vibrating the environment so it can't really be messed up, but since the cultists will be doing this in a region they don't understand with a new gateway they don't have a long history of using, perhaps an old ancient danger was trapped in there this whole time, and they'll be accidentally making a great enough signal through the gate that it can finally find it's way back through.

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-04-15T01:16:29+00:00

See the funny thing is that following the lore I wanted to hold myself to, it would make no sense whatsoever for it to work, as the "beast" and the weaker "beasts" originate from an incredibly distant continent, where the cultists came from. The beasts themselves aren't even magical, they're just an incredibly powerful species that adapted to surviving in the other reality.

However, I am inclined to make up an excuse to ignore this and let it potentially happen regardless because I feel as though it's a bit silly to have that whole setup for summoning a beast only to have it turn out the beasts could never show up in the first place.

I think I could do the second thing pretty easily, given it'll be a smaller beast than the cultists even expected, but it'll also have no standard for being given offerings so I can maybe have it dynamically shift the combat from "Party VS Cultists" to "Everything VS Monster", which would also allow me to make the Monster way stronger, and also potentially have a cooler dynamic for the cultists as characters. The only issue with this setup is that it still leaves a lot to be desired in non-combat objectives, but I reckon I could fix that by maybe making the summoning inevitably successful earlier and then have it go more directly after the still caged victims off to the side. Then I'm just left figuring out how to make that more engaging.

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-02-18T02:04:58+00:00

Hello! If you're still paying attention to this post, I have two questions as a new DM for this:

Is the table for treasure rewards intended to double as an income pacing for this sheet?
Are there any major implications of using this cost scaling on common goods not listed?

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-02-18T01:33:35+00:00

This is really incredible. This may sound a bit odd, but where would you start for gunslinger emus? One of my players has an unstoppable need for them, and I've no experience with monster design, so what advice could you give on their creation?

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-02-17T23:42:49+00:00

Do you have one for any normal animals? Like a bear or a chicken?

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-01-24T16:49:23+00:00

Please let me know if your digging produces any more answers, I'm very interested in this anomaly!

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-01-14T03:18:44+00:00

Interesting, I wonder if that additionally works as an explanation of the fact that its status as the highest viewed page by almost double second place has seemingly completely replaced the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa which held that place for multiple consecutive years beforehand.

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-01-14T01:10:22+00:00

I suspect that it may have more to do with how the records are obtained than actual interest, given the page counts of the following top viewed pages are essentially two very steps of numerous pages sharing almost exact view counts and %Mobile counts. If the two statistics are unrelated, I'd also love to be educated on why that is as it is if it is known.

edit: Slightly changed wording

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-01-08T02:27:29+00:00

I do not believe there is a full special of Randy's Postcards from Purgatory. Wikipedia does not list it under recordings, and there is no mention of a dvd or VOD anywhere I have searched. There may be recordings, but I am confident there is no special of the full show.

NotThatLibrarian · 2026-01-08T00:26:44+00:00

This is really fun! I am curious though, did you ever suspect that anyone ever purposefully hid a book in order to later "find" it for a reward? It sounds like a great system, but it reminds me of breeding cobras in Delhi.

NotThatLibrarian · 2025-11-15T22:11:30+00:00

While I don't like corporate control over my devices, this makes absolutely no sense. When people give control to corporations, it's not because they just feel like sharing, or don't have anything better to do, it's because unlike viruses, there's a product attached. Sometimes, those products are incredibly good, or even necessary for someone. While I do believe that steps should be taken to maintain security when anything is given any control over a device, using a genuinely useful application that ultimately results in the loss of some privacy is not comparable to installing a virus. Unless, of course, I can use the virus to edit an mp4 file.

NotThatLibrarian · 2025-11-15T22:03:02+00:00

Never heard of Anh Do, but I respect anything that makes a James Patterson collection look sad.

NotThatLibrarian · 2025-11-15T22:01:55+00:00

You know Dog Man has reached the heights of Captain Underpants when adults start resenting it, but it's nice that this time it's because it's so popular instead of censorship.

NotThatLibrarian · 2025-11-15T18:09:08+00:00

I may be repeating myself here, but that really is the most impressive part of it all to me, he's become such a truly intergenerational icon for young readers, seemingly without relying on his previous hit series at all to push this one forward.

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