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Hello Fellow Engineers!

Welcome to Real Civil Newsletter - the only newsletter where bridges get judged, dogs get deployed, and space skyscrapers get side-eyed.

This week, we’re reviewing a bridge that literally swerves around international borders, laughing at an architect who wanted to hang a tower from space, and watching Paddy challenge basic physics (again). There’s also cursed engineering memes and questionable indie games.

Whether you’re here for the bridge scores or just want to see me get outsmarted by a dog, you’re in the right place.

Let’s dive into it 👇

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The Analemma Tower: When Gravity Is Just a Suggestion

Okay team, strap in. This week’s engineering monstrosity isn't built into a mountain, floating in the sea, or stretching across deserts. No, this one? It's hanging from space. Literally. Meet the Analemma Tower, a megabuild proposal that makes even the most high-rise-obsessed architect weep into their sketchpad.

Here’s the pitch: take an asteroid, yank it into geosynchronous orbit, and suspend a 20-mile-tall skyscraper from it, just casually dangling above Earth like some interstellar Christmas ornament. Each level would pass through different time zones and climates, meaning you could have breakfast in the tropics and dinner in the Arctic, without leaving your building. You know... assuming you don’t pass out from vertigo first.

Now, obviously, no part of this was designed by engineers alone, because we’d be busy asking boring things like “What tensile strength would that cable need?” or “How do we keep the tower from flailing around like a wet noodle during a solar storm?” But leave it to the architects to pitch a concept held up by an actual space rock.

But hey, credit where it's due: it’s big, it’s wild.. And while it may never get built (because, you know, physics), it’s a glorious reminder that engineers are the ones who take these fever dreams and figure out why they’re dumb, and then occasionally find a way to make them less dumb.

⚡ Cool Links

🕸 Silksong Broke the Internet…
The long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong finally launched and immediately crashed Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, AND the Nintendo eShop. Peak concurrency: 535,000 players. That’s more pressure than a badly designed bridge arch.

🛠 RoadCraft’s Hard Mode for Sickos
Limited fuel, broken gearboxes, toxic train derailments, RoadCraft’s new hard mode simulates transport engineering chaos in all its glory.

🎮 40+ Free Xbox Indie Demos This Month
From Yooka-Replaylee to Mina the Hollower, Xbox’s Indie Selects Fest is serving up a buffet of free demos until Sept 30.

🎶 Suri: The Seventh Note – India’s New Rhythm Platformer
A hand-painted indie inspired by Celeste and Hollow Knight. Jump, dash, and groove through musical landscapes while proving once again that engineers can stay on beat

🔥 Firefighting Simulator: Ignite
Team-based co-op, mod support, and authentically heavy rescue gear. €1.94M in government funding went into making this game real.

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• Argue with me about arch bridges at midnight?

• Share cursed infrastructure memes in #memes-4-u?

• Help shape my future content in #rce-content-talks?

• Witness the building of a card game in #civil-draft-tcg that probably breaks every building code?

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Come lurk. Come chat. Come judge bridge scores. It’s free and full of good concrete-loving chaos.

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🐕‍🦺 Paddy’s Corner

It’s a 100% fair game

🐕‍🔥 This week’s most intense engineering test? Me vs. Paddy. One ball. One goal. No mercy.

He gets a head start, sure. But I’ve got longer legs and something to prove.

🎥 100% fair. Zero dignity. Watch the epic clash below 👇️ 

👾 Indie Game of the Week:

Table Tactics – a physics-based defense game where I guard a tiny castle using knights, catapults, and very questionable tactical decisions.

It’s like Sabutio meets Warhammer, but with more flinging and fewer rules. Also: I deployed Paddy the dog into battle. He bravely launched himself into orcs, treasure chests... and occasionally thin air.

Watch me defend my kingdom below 👇️ 

It’s time for a Bridge Review!

Ever thought, “You know what we need here? A bridge that awkwardly curves to avoid neighboring borders.” No? That’s your engineer brain talking. Architects are probably over there drafting a curvy “landmark.” Meanwhile, the Kazungula Bridge did what needed doing.

This 923 m cable-stayed beauty links Zambia and Botswana, plus pedestrians, trucks, and soon, even a train (if and when next-gen railway shows up). It replaced the rickety ferry and neatly skirts Zimbabwe and Namibia; because why build straight when you can build clever (and a little awkward)?

Final Score: 8.2/10