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 The engine generates a voxel world using chunk columns.
 
-The suspiciously‑simple pipeline:
+The surprisingly simple pipeline:
 
 1. `SurfaceGenerator` decides if a voxel is solid.
 2. `ChunkColumn` stacks chunks vertically.
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 Since we use 1 bit instead of a whole struct, one could argu the memory usage is ~32× lower.  
-Important, because RAM now costs $800 for 16 GB. that's like fifty bucks per gigabyte, and I'm not emotionally prepared for that.
+Important, because RAM now costs $800 for 16 GB. that's like fifty bucks per gigabyte.
 
 Materials are handled at the meshing/registry layer, not in voxel storage.