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Hello Fellow Engineers!

Where the bridges are strong, the clock towers are unnecessarily massive, and the architects are still banned from the group chat.

This week we’re scaling skyscrapers, building rat empires, reviewing fictional bridges (because real ones aren’t chaotic enough), and asking the big questions, like did my dog just speak fluent engineering?

Scroll on for absurd structures, indie gems, and possibly cursed quizzes.

Let’s dive into it 👇

This week, we’re giving away a few single games!

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

🏆️ Ringer - nexomax08
🎁 Synergy - jac122583
🎉 Iron Road - magnedanoe

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👷‍♂️ Truss Me, I’m an Engineer…

The Makkah Clock Royal Tower: Because Bigger Is Better

Architects may sketch dreams, but engineers build monuments. Case in point: the Makkah Clock Royal Tower in Saudi Arabia. This beast didn’t just break records, it dropkicked them off the roof. Standing at 601 meters tall, it’s the third tallest building on Earth…but most importantly, it’s a tribute to what happens when engineers are in charge of the crayons.

Fun fact: It’s home to the largest clock face in the world, and I’m convinced that’s because the engineers were tired of architects designing clocks that no one could actually read.

Now let’s talk numbers and flexes:

• The clock face is 43 meters wide. That’s roughly the length of three London buses laid end to end. Or, if you’re an architect, the number of times you’ll need to revise your drawing after we tell you it’s structurally impossible.

• 21,000+ white and green LED lights illuminate the clock at night, turning it into a lighthouse of punctuality. Your wristwatch feels shame in its presence.

• It’s visible from 25 kilometers away. That’s how far you have to walk just to calm down after listening to an architect explain their “vision.”

This tower didn’t just show up to play Big Ben cosplay in the desert, it has:

• A massive spire that reaches into the clouds, covered in gold mosaic tiles and crowned with a crescent that looks like it could harvest moonlight.

• A five-story balcony above the clock that allows maintenance crews (read: brave engineers) to keep it ticking. That’s right, we don’t just build it, we climb it, fix it, and probably high-five each other on the way down.

Meanwhile, somewhere, an architect is sipping coffee saying, “I imagined it taller.”

TL;DR: The Makkah Clock Royal Tower is a 600-meter tall “suck it” to gravity, time, and every fragile concept sketch an architect ever wept over.

Engineers made a clock so big, time now runs on our terms.

⚡ Cool Links

🌉 Top 5 Bridges of 2025
From Oregon to Arkansas, the American Society of Civil Engineers highlights the best bridges of the year. Spoiler: none were designed by architects. Coincidence? I think not.

🚧 Gordie Howe International Bridge Nears Completion
A six-lane mega-bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor is set to open this fall. It's a symbol of engineering prowess, and a nightmare for GPS systems.

🐀 Ratopia: The Rat Kingdom Simulator You Didn't Know You Needed
Build a rat empire in this side-scrolling city-builder inspired by Dwarf Fortress and RimWorld. It's like SimCity, but with more cheese and fewer zoning laws.

🚚 Zarya: Mudrunner Meets Disco Elysium
Drive through rural Russia as a delivery driver in this narrative simulator. Embark on a road trip through a Dostoevsky novel - what’s better than that?

🤖 Autonomica: The Mech Survival Game Born from Titanfall's Ashes
After EA canceled Titanfall, indie devs raised $500k to create a mech survival game with farming, automation, and ghost-hunting.

🛸 Approaching Infinity: 12 Years in the Making
This Star Trek-inspired roguelike lets you explore a procedurally generated galaxy with carnivorous bunnies and haunted casinos. Beam me up, Paddy!

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🐕‍🦺 Paddy’s Corner

What was this noise!?

If you need a laugh, check out Paddy the Apprentice trying to communicate in this video.

He sounds like there's a tiny engineer trapped inside… or maybe he swallowed an architect and it's trying to get out.

👾 Indie Game of the Week:

If you’ve ever suspected your quiz was written by someone who thinks “load-bearing” is an emotion, you were probably playing The Impossible Quiz.

Now, before you ask, yes, this game is OLD. Released back in 2007, it’s basically vintage internet.

The kind of game you'd play on the family computer while waiting for LimeWire to finish downloading “homework.mp3.”

I took on this fever dream of logic traps to prove I'm still an engineer and not some architect in disguise.

Did I succeed?

Did I accidentally start liking abstract art?

Who knows.

Try your own luck on the impossible quiz HERE (then hit reply and let me know how you did!)

🎮 Watch me struggle here:

It’s time for a Bridge Review!

Well well well, what do we have here? We’re celebrating the new GTA VI trailer with a glorious slab of concrete and steel rising from the virtual depths like Poseidon built it himself, with planning approval from an engineer and a restraining order on any architects.

This beauty from the first GTA VI trailer is clearly inspired by the Bahia Honda Rail Bridge in Florida, but with some modern engineering muscle and just enough chaos potential to make it peak GTA.

🧱 Engineering Highlights:

• Dual spans! That’s right, two bridges side by side, one clearly made for cars, the other possibly for chaos, pedestrians, or the occasional flaming motorbike stunt.

• Realistic gradients and gentle curvature. You love to see it. No gravity-defying "expressions of form" here, just cold, hard functionality.

• Structurally sound piers that actually touch the water, unlike those “floating concepts” architects love sketching on napkins at brunch.

🎯 Practical Design Features:

• Perfectly placed for car chases, boat getaways, or launching a cargo plane through a bus full of flaming eels.

• No random obelisks, sweeping unsupported arches, or weird glass bits that serve no purpose other than to make engineers cry in metric.

Final Score: 8.7/10

Solid span, no nonsense, and just the right amount of chaos potential. Connect the rail bridge to the land and we’d be talking 9+ easy.

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