In the quote I showed he's equating the censorship/authoritarianism of nazi germany to that of the USSR. Of the comments he has made, I actually find that apt. Your interpretation only makes sense if you're equating the USSR with leftism generally which says as much about you as it does him.

I understand boycotting the game because of uncouth comments of its creator, especially when it comes to women's rights / sexual assault / etc., but please be honest that's the reason if it truly is why. I am at least not convinced he's a fascist based purely on what I've seen him say.

As someone who has read the linked thread: it would be helpful, even for me, if you included a quote that shows he blames the left for everything wrong. I think you're referring to (link):

There is obviously a big difference in historical experience. In Czech Republic, we had naciz occupying us, then the communism followed by 20 years of occupation of USSR. We have a very close experience with censorship, propaganda and totalitarian regime. There was a lot of deplatforming going on, when people would go to prison or would be executed because they listened to the wrong radio station. [...]

but I'm not sure because here he seems to blame fascism too here. Do you have a better quote that I didn't see?

True, but after the incident happened it seemed as though some people did everything in their power to make it look like a mentality to him (i.e. combing through his past posts to see if he himself said anything yikes to prove to everyone how shitty he is). The "shove it up your ass" comment is enough to point to, so pointing to the (now deleted, might I add) statutory rape comment feels more like having a hate boner for the guy and that your goal is to moreso make you hate him as much as you rather than just the plain 'don't buy the game from this guy, he's a reactionary'.

This is a cool feature of a lot of regex implementations but I will warn you that reusing capture groups in a match means it's impossible for any regex engine to guarantee a reasonable upper bound (best they can do is O(n!) I think? I'd have to look up the details). In a replacement string this is a non-issue because there's no way they can recurse out of control.

Edit: found the video I originally heard this from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gITmP0IWff0

There is Backus-Naur form (and it's derivatives), which at least lets you name each section of text like you would a variable or function. Technically matches context-free expressions rather than regular ones but that's hardly different for most cases.

Ultrakill, a very stylish boomer shooter. I'd recomend it.

There are machines you can goon to:

This is a bit of a "Voyager probe has left the solar system" headline. Pops up every few years to remind us that words are ambiguous.

If you like Rimworld the obvious suggestion from me is Dwarf Fortress. It's on steam but if you're not sure I believe there's a free version with the original ascii graphics on the bay12 games website (at least there was when I last played).

Also Factorio might interest you, but for a laid back experience you'd want to turn down biters (mostly disabling expansions). May be mentally taxing.

Another comment mentions modded minecraft, which gets a +1 from me. Though if you want a "forever world" I'd suggest playing unmodded (save for some client side graphics / QoL if desired), as there's at least some guarantee you can keep the world as the game gets updated. If you do go modded though I'd suggest using prismlauncher and browsing through premade modpacks on modrinth and curseforge. P.S. if you don't already own the game somehow you'll want java edition, not bedrock

I've been reading some of these other replies and my input is that to me you sound depressed / burnt out. I do not say that as a psychologist or therapist, if you want that diagnosis you'd have to talk to a certified one; however, the times in my life I have been more depressed the more I agree with this sentiment and the less I've been depressed the less I agree.

I'd also like to remind you that you are asking this on Lemmy, which means a lot of responses you'll get here are from a certain nerdy, shut-in type. I say this because people here are likely to agree already, which is good for sympathies but not for answering your actual question.

When people say they enjoy being social, they are not lying (with caveats). Most healthy people have at least a couple of relationships they deeply value, and if you're missing that I think it's worth continuing to meet people even if it's a lot of effort.

Work-wise though, yeah people are mostly lying there. There's a much stronger insentive structure to lie.

I want to reiterate you should look into whether you've got burnout or depression, especially given the current climate. Those both have a way of draining enjoyment from seemingly unrelated things, relationships usually being one of the first.

OP can operate a freezer though?