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Hello Fellow Engineers!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US! 🦃 May your turkeys remain structurally sound and your mashed potatoes pass a slump test.

Welcome to Real Civil Newsletter - the only newsletter where we fire up warehouse logistics for fun, admire water pipelines that behave like hydraulic roller coasters, and judge bridges with the same intensity most people reserve for reality TV.

This week we’re giving away Cargo Simulator 2025, exploring Australia’s overachieving mega-pipeline, reviewing a bridge that can’t decide whether it’s a structure or a submarine, rescuing (or failing to rescue) balls with Paddy, and playing an indie game where a mutant dog helps me clean an island while silently replacing me as the channel’s mascot.

Grab your hard hat, your clipboard, and your emotional support coffee, things are about to get efficiently chaotic.

Let’s dive in 👇

We’re giving away ONE copy of Cargo Simulator 2025! 📦⚙️

If you’ve ever wanted to run your own warehouse, pack boxes like a Tetris grandmaster, and yell at fictional staff for putting fragile items under kettlebells, this is absolutely your game.

And now, the moment you’ve been waiting for… 🥁

🏆 WINNER: olav.furuholt 🏆

Check your inbox for your key and prepare to mislabel parcels, hire the wrong employees, and build a warehouse network that would make real-life logistics managers weep.

Missed out? Don’t worry - more giveaways are coming soon. Want a shot at the next one? Vote for a bridge in this week’s poll! 🌉✨

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Fuel your logistics, bridge-building, and turtle-saving adventures at a discount!

👷‍♂️ Truss Me, I’m an Engineer…

💧 The World’s Most Unnecessarily Epic Water Pipeline

Imagine designing a pipeline so massive, so dramatic, and so heroic that it feels like it should have its own theme music. Australia said, “Yes please,” and dug a 31-km tunnel called the Snowy 2 Tunnel just to slingshot water between reservoirs like an enormous hydraulic Mario Kart track.

🧠 The Engineering Flex:

• A TBM the size of a small moon chewed through mountains at 15 metres per day.

• Water drops 700 metres inside the system, enough to power homes and enough to give any architect vertigo.

• The whole design works like a gravity-powered energy yo-yo.

Final Verdict:

Hydraulic chaos. Mountain-eating machinery. Zero architectural input.
10/10, would let it run my city’s utilities.

⚡ Cool Links

⚙️ Engineering & Infrastructure

💥 UK laser weapon shoots down high-speed drones - In its latest set of trials Britain’s advanced DragonFire laser weapon has been used to successfully target and shoot down high-speed drones.

🏗️ This is literally the biggest construction site in Europe, and yet, most Europeans don’t even know that this tunnel could soon change the way we travel across the continent! Let's dive into the engineering and construction of this 18 km long underwater tunnel in the Baltic Sea!

🎮 Gaming & Indie Update

🤑 Valve accidentally smothers indie game with 138,000 wishlists by not telling anyone it existed, then apologizes to studio by accidentally revealing Steam Machine on the same day of promotion

🐴 This Indie Game Has Been Banned On Steam Before It's Even Released - Horses is a first-person title that casts players as a ranch hand. The horses in this game aren't horses at all. They're naked humans wearing horse masks who are forced to act like beasts of burden.

🐕‍🦺 Paddy’s Corner

Mission imPAWssible!

Paddy attempted a full ball-recovery operation this week after losing his favourite blue rope ball in a pond. Unfortunately, the water was muddier than concrete slump tests, visibility was zero.

We searched, we squinted, we got bitten by mosquitoes - no blue in sight.

Paddy did manage to rescue a different ball he nearly lost mid-mission, but the original?

Whilst there was no happy ending to this video, you might want to tune in to Paddy's channel on Saturday for an EPIC ending to the story.

👾 Indie Game of the Week:

This week I played Restore Your Island, the only game where you clean up a beach, evolve a long-necked dog, and accidentally commit to a full-time recycling career. It’s basically PowerWash Simulator meets Cast Away, but with more coconuts and significantly fewer working neck joints.

I tidied trash, fed a mutant dog, found treasure, and heroically saved a turtle - all while pretending I wasn’t cheating on Paddy with a low-poly imposter.

🎥 Watch the full island-cleaning chaos in this YouTube video!

It’s time for a Bridge Review!

The Øresund Bridge is actually a bridge and a tunnel because engineers said, “Why choose?”
It starts as a cable-stayed beauty, drops into an island, then yeets itself underground.

Engineering Highlights:

• 7.8 km of pure structural flex

• Supports road + rail without complaining

• Transition from bridge → tunnel like a structural magic trick

• Survives constant wind, waves, and Scandinavian judgement

Architects called it “sleek.”
Engineers called it “correct.”

Final Score: 9.8 / 10

Lost 0.2 points because someone did actually suggest making the entire thing “slightly curvier.”