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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 covering it all: the discovery of the Black Marker in the Chicxulub crater, the orchestrated martyrdom of Michael Altman, and how the Church of Unitology used "tangible proof" to eclipse every other religion on Earth. We also look at the bloody history of the Sovereign Colonies, from the Secession Wars to the "Scenario Five" purge on Tau Volantis. Finally, we break down the Aegis VII incident in full, weaving together the stories of Lexine Murdoch and Gabe Weller from Extraction with Isaac Clarke’s desperate search for Nicole Brennan on a ship where every corpse is a potential predator.

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​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 with the grim entropy of the Dying Earth genre. We're talking about a desolate wasteland completely devastated by uncontrolled magic, where gods are unable to see the world, and the very sands want to kill you.

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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 production.

Desperate to finish filming, the production company allegedly took private funding from a regional meat-packing conglomerate. Part of the contract stipulated that the set, crew, and lead actor of Terraces had to shoot a promotional commercial for British Pork. That viral, unsettling advertisement is actually the only surviving footage of the Terraces set.

If you look closely at the ad, the actor isn't playing a happy father; he is still entirely in character as the lead of the show, a murderer and a cannibal. The intense, unblinking eye contact, the aggressive way he wields the carving tools, and the stilted, unnatural delivery of lines like "Fred's got plenty... Arthur's got plenty" were written as a dark inside joke by the crew. The meat on the table was heavily rumored by the crew to be a prop from the show's butchery scene, not actual pork.

The most sinister part of the ad is the repeated, menacing line: "Got what it takes, my wife." Two weeks after the commercial aired on regional late-night television, the lead actor was found dead in his kitchen. His real-life wife, Helen, was arrested at the scene, but before she could stand trial, Helen died in police custody under highly contested circumstances, officially ruled as heart failure brought on by severe hysteria.

Following the deaths and controversy, the BBC panicked, locked the unfinished master tapes of Terraces in their archives, and scrubbed the names of the crew from their records. The British Pork ad was pulled, only surviving because a few people happened to record it on VHS.