Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast
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Eclipse Phase: Where Your Brain Is Software and Your Body Is a Rental
Oct 9, 2026
2h 06m 27s
Cthulhupunk: The Most Baffling TTRPG Setting Ever Written
Oct 2, 2026
2h 02m 54s
PancreasNoWork Explains Dark Souls 2 Lore
Sep 25, 2026
1h 34m 37s
Welcome to Dubai: Spec Ops The Line
Sep 18, 2026
1h 51m 13s
At The Mountains of Madness: Horrors Beneath Antarctica's Permafrost
Sep 4, 2026
1h 45m 36s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/9/26 | Eclipse Phase: Where Your Brain Is Software and Your Body Is a Rental | https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculous https://www.adeptusridiculous.com/ https://twitter.com/AdRidiculous https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculous Welcome back to Acceptable Losses, where things are about to get uncomfortably post-human. DK and Kirioth are diving into the terrifying, hyper-capitalist cosmic horror of the Eclipse Phase RPG setting. Earth is a quarantined graveyard, 95% of humanity was wiped out by the TITAN AI's, and the survivors are now just digitize... | 2h 06m 27s | ||||||
| 10/2/26 | Cthulhupunk: The Most Baffling TTRPG Setting Ever Written | https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculous https://www.adeptusridiculous.com/ https://twitter.com/AdRidiculous https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculous Welcome to Acceptable Losses! This week, DK and Possum decided to subject Kirioth to a completely blind reading of one of the most baffling TTRPG settings ever written: GURPS Cthulhupunk. Kirioth purposefully didn't read the script beforehand, and the result is two hours of us completely losing our sanity over a world that bl... | 2h 02m 54s | ||||||
| 9/25/26 | PancreasNoWork Explains Dark Souls 2 Lore | https://www.makeship.com/petitions/the-acceptable-casualty-hoodie HOODIE COLLAB WITH MAKESHIP! Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Merch: https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/acceptable-losses Welcome back to Acceptable Losses. In this episode, we step into the cursed kingdom of Drangleic to dissect the deeply tragic and fiercely debated lore of Dark Souls 2. Joined by DK, Kirioth, and Pancr... | 1h 34m 37s | ||||||
| 9/18/26 | Welcome to Dubai: Spec Ops The Line | https://www.makeship.com/petitions/the-acceptable-casualty-hoodie HOODIE COLLAB WITH MAKESHIP! Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Merch: https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/acceptable-losses Welcome back to another episode of Acceptable Losses. This time, we are stepping out of our usual fantasy and sci-fi universes and marching directly into the sand-choked ruins of Dubai to dissect one ... | 1h 51m 13s | ||||||
| 9/4/26 | Antarcticaexpedition+3 | — | Miskatonic University | — | AntarcticaMiskatonic University+4 | — | 1h 45m 36s | ||
| 8/28/26 | Dark Souls lorevideo game storytelling+3 | PancreasNoWork | Dark Souls 1First Flame+2 | — | Dark Soulslore+7 | — | 1h 26m 07s | ||
| 8/21/26 | Cyberpunk 2020tabletop RPG+3 | — | Cyberpunk 2020Cyberpunk 2077 | — | Cyberpunk 2020tabletop RPG+4 | — | 2h 10m 22s | ||
| 8/14/26 | Dominion WarStarfleet+4 | — | United Federation of Planets | Gamma QuadrantBajoran Wormhole | Dominion WarStarfleet+6 | — | 1h 57m 59s | ||
| 7/31/26 | Werewolf: The ApocalypseGarou Tribes+3 | — | Acceptable LossesDiscord+3 | — | GarouWerewolf+5 | — | 1h 57m 50s | ||
| 7/24/26 | Shadowrun loreRenraku Arcology+3 | — | RenrakuShadowrun | Seattle | Renraku ArcologyShadowrun+5 | — | 2h 12m 41s | ||
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| 7/17/26 | dark fantasyliterature analysis+5 | — | The Black Company | — | The Black CompanyGlen Cook+5 | — | 2h 16m 55s | ||
| 7/3/26 | Dead Space 3video game analysis+3 | DKKirioth | Acceptable LossesDead Space 3 | Tau Volantis | Dead Space 3Tau Volantis+5 | — | 2h 14m 24s | ||
| 6/26/26 | fantasy literaturecorporate overlords+3 | — | Acceptable Losses | — | The Black CompanyGlen Cook+5 | — | 1h 40m 55s | ||
| 6/19/26 | shipwrecktrue crime+3 | Bricky | Detective RidiculousAcceptable Losses | Batavia | shipwreckBatavia+5 | — | 1h 42m 16s | ||
| 6/5/26 | The Complete Dead Space 2 Timeline | Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Merch: https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/acceptable-losses Get ready to return to the Sprawl. In this episode of Acceptable Losses, DK, Kirioth, and special guest The Remembrancer dissects the massive, multimedia timeline of Dead Space 2. We aren't just covering Isaac Clarke's desperate escape from the EarthGov asylum. We are breaking down the complete e... | 1h 50m 58s | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | The Republic's Self-Inflicted Downfall | Star Wars Lore | Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Merch: https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/acceptable-losses For 25,000 years, the Galactic Republic stood as a beacon of democracy, but its eventual collapse wasn't just the work of the Sith—it was an inside job. In this episode of Acceptable Losses, DK, Kirioth, and PancreasNoWork join the table to break down how the Republic and the Jedi Order effectiv... | 1h 31m 26s | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | Gaia is Dead: A Deep Dive into Werewolf: The Apocalypse | Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Merch: https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/acceptable-losses Welcome back to Acceptable Losses. In this episode, DK, Kirioth, and PancreasNoWork dive headfirst into the bloody, grimdark lore of Werewolf: The Apocalypse. To be a Garou in the World of Darkness is to be a rage-fueled, spiritually driven eco-terrorist fighting a desperate war to save a dying w... | 2h 03m 42s | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | The Terror: Agony in the Arctic | Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Merch: https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/acceptable-losses What's worse: being hunted by an eldritch horror, or slowly dying of lead poisoning in a freezing wasteland where the sun disappears for months? On this episode of Acceptable Losses, DK and Kirioth dissect the doomed voyage of the Terror and the Erebus. We're looking at the show, the book, and th... | 1h 59m 04s | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | Why Teleportation is a Nightmare: From Star Trek to The Fly | Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Merch: https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/acceptable-losses Think teleportation is just a convenient way to get from the Enterprise to a planet’s surface? Think again. Today on Acceptable Losses, we are peeling back the high-tech veneer of sci-fi’s favorite shortcut to reveal the visceral, molecular nightmares lurking in the buffer. From the very first ca... | 1h 43m 31s | ||||||
| 4/24/26 | All Tomorrows: The Ultimate Grimdark Evolution | Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Merch: https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/acceptable-losses What happens when evolution is forced on humanity as a punishment not for crimes, but for curiosity? Welcome back to Acceptable Losses. Today, DK, PancreasNoWork, and Kirioth traverse a countless amount of time to watch the fall of humanity and the creatures that rise in its ashes. We are explor... | 2h 07m 44s | ||||||
| 4/17/26 | Make Us Whole: A Dead Space Deep Dive | Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Merch: https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/acceptable-losses This episode of Acceptable Losses is a deep dive into the cosmic horror and corporate negligence of the Dead Space universe. Join Dk, Kirioth, and The Remembrancer as they trace the timeline from Earth’s 21st-century energy crisis to the total biological collapse on the USG Ishimura. We’re cover... | 1h 48m 16s | ||||||
| 4/3/26 | Dark Sun: D&D’s Most Controversial Setting | Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Merch: https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/acceptable-losses Welcome back to Acceptable Losses. Today, DK and Kirioth are venturing into the most brutal, unforgiving, and controversial campaign setting in D&D history: Dark Sun. Set on the tormented, sun-scorched world of Athas, this setting is what happens when pulpy Sword & Sorcery collides wit... | 1h 54m 21s | ||||||
| 4/1/26 | The Banned UK TV Show Too Bleak for Television That Left Two Dead. | Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Terraces was conceived in 1984 by Mick Jackson and Barry Hines as a predecessor to the famous post-apocalyptic movie Threads. It was a bleak, hopeless drama set in a Northern English terraced housing estate during the fallout of a Soviet-US nuclear exchange. The BBC deemed the script so repulsive and anti-Thatcher that they pulled the funding halfway through p... | 33m 20s | ||||||
| 3/27/26 | The Bleakest Fallout Game | Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Welcome back to Acceptable Losses! When asked what the darkest entry in the franchise is, most people immediately point to the horrors of the Mojave Wasteland or the desolation of the very first game. But they're missing a story that didn't have the luxury of a century to heal its wounds. Today, DK, Kirioth, and PancreasNoWork are exploring a chapter where you... | 1h 59m 18s | ||||||
| 3/20/26 | The Cosmos is a Nightmare: A Lovecraft Lore Primer | Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Merch: https://shop.orchideight.com/collections/acceptable-losses In this episode of Acceptable Losses, we stare into the cosmic abyss with special guest TheAmberKing for a complete primer on Lovecraftian lore! If you’ve ever been confused about the difference between a Great Old One and an Outer God, or just want to know why everyone is so afraid of tentacles... | 1h 27m 06s | ||||||
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Peaked at #7 in New Zealand, top 10 in 2 of 20 tracked markets, currently #7 in New Zealand.
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| United States | — | #111 | #111 | — |
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20 placements across 14 markets.
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20 placements across 14 markets.