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Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast

Acceptable Losses

Acceptable Losses is a podcast that delves into grim and twisted universes, exploring everything from the dismal no-man"s-lands of Trench Crusade to the shadowy and twisting cities of The World of Darkness. Hosted by Kirioth and DkDiamantes, and edited by Shy, all known for their work on Adeptus Ridiculous, the podcast explores the grim stories and lore from tabletop games, book series, movies, and video games with a lighthearted approach. Join us on this journey as we delve into the macabre and

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130:22

The Dark History of Cyberpunk 2020: Before 2077

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/08/21

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 to the darkest timeline. Today on Acceptable Losses, DK and Kirioth will dive deep into the gritty, original lore of the classic tabletop RPG, Cyberpunk 2020. Before the neon-soaked streets of Cyberpunk 2077, the world had to completely fall apart. We explore the massive divergence in t...

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117:59

The Dominion War: How Starfleet Abandoned Its Morals

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/08/14

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, DK and Kirioth dive into the most devastating conflict the United Federation of Planets has ever faced: The Dominion War. After discovering a shortcut to the Gamma Quadrant via the Bajoran Wormhole, the Federation accidentally attracts the attention of the mo...

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117:50

A Guide to the Garou Tribes: Werewolf the Apocalypse...

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/07/31

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! Today Dk, Kirioth and PancreasNoWork are leaving the Kindred behind and diving into the raw, feral world of Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Unlike vampires, the Garou are inherently social creatures, making their Tribes the absolute core of their e...

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132:41

Shadowrun's Most Horrifying Disaster: The Renraku...

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/07/24

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, we are diving into one of the darkest and most terrifying cover-ups in Shadowrun lore: The Renraku Arcology Shutdown. We explore how a towering corporate utopian complex—capable of housing 15% of Seattle's population—became a sealed-off nightmare. On De...

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136:55

The Black Company: Simping for The Lady (A Quarter...

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/07/17

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 The Black Company is on the run, and the casualty reports are getting completely unhinged. DK and Kirioth are back to break down the monstrous second half of Glen Cook's dark fantasy classic. From explosive spell-wars between Goblin and One-Eye to Soulcatcher flexing a literal magic carpet, the r...

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134:24

The Complete Dead Space 3 Timeline

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/07/03

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 are joined by the Remembrancer, DK, and Kirioth to brave the frozen, necromorph-infested wastes of Tau Volantis as we dissect the ultimate franchise-killer: Dead Space 3. We pull no punches as we break down exactly how EA stripped away the isolation and te...

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100:55

The Black Company: When Your New Corporate Overlord...

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/06/26

https://www.orchideight.com/products/acceptable-losses-you-like-history-right-tee NEW SHIRT 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 Before Warhammer Fantasy had even left its infancy, author Glen Cook took a plunge into a completely different kind of fantasy: one that traded righteous knights and glorious kingdoms for a cynical, heav...

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102:16

Shipwreck That Turned Into a Nightmare Cult Ft. Bricky

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/06/19

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 Surviving a shipwreck is usually the end of the nightmare. For the passengers of the Batavia, it was just the beginning. In this crossover episode of Detective Ridiculous and Acceptable Losses, we are joined by DK, Kirioth, and special guest Bricky to dive into one of the bloodiest true-crime st...

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110:58

The Complete Dead Space 2 Timeline

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/06/05

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...

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91:26

The Republic's Self-Inflicted Downfall | Star Wars Lore

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/05/29

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...

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123:42

Gaia is Dead: A Deep Dive into Werewolf: The Apocalypse

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/05/22

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...

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119:04

The Terror: Agony in the Arctic

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/05/15

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...

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103:31

Why Teleportation is a Nightmare: From Star Trek to...

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/05/01

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...

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127:44

All Tomorrows: The Ultimate Grimdark Evolution

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/04/24

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...

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108:16

Make Us Whole: A Dead Space Deep Dive

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/04/17

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...

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114:21

Dark Sun: D&D’s Most Controversial Setting

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/04/03

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...

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33:20

The Banned UK TV Show Too Bleak for Television That...

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/04/01

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...

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119:18

The Bleakest Fallout Game

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/03/27

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...

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87:06

The Cosmos is a Nightmare: A Lovecraft Lore Primer

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/03/20

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...

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127:35

Piloting Cthulhu: Black Marauder & Other Supernatural...

Acceptable Losses: A Grimdark Podcast ·

2026/03/06

Support us and get episodes early: https://www.patreon.com/c/AcceptableLosses Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nhX9NJ3EW7 Welcome back to another episode of Acceptable Losses! Today, we are diving into the terrifying, unexplained, and straight-up supernatural side of BattleTech with our host PancreasNoWork to swap some of the most chilling war stories traded in the deep black of space. In this episode, we cover: How a religious splinter faction unleashed a bioengineered versi...

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