Op, heres something that might give you a few thousand hours ( im serious) of distraction

Play Tom Clancys Division 2. Its literally the last bastion, enclave of thinking gamers.. The developer called it a math game at its core cause you might need spreadsheets to keep track of all the numbers that you will ensemble in gear statistics

you can make thousands of different builds in theory crafting. I have not seen two of the same builds.

You can then test out your builds in PVE or PVE arenas

The setting is a modern world thats gone to shit, so you wont feel out of place.

Youll actualy feel happy cause you realize all of life is in vain and in a few years we would be overun by weeds and decay and only left with memories

The first game in this franchise got me thru the messy political election, it distracts me from the corrupt fake news media , so seriously its a plus of a pasttime.