so I just changed the folder
/home/{user}/Project Zomboid
to
/home/{user}/ProjectZomboid
and now it's running
I've very confused as to what happened but I'll try to write out everything that I did in the hopes that someone understands how I stumbled into making it work again.
So, before the issue started, what I was doing was double clicking the /home/{user}/Project Zomboid/start-server.sh and the terminal would open and run the server.
The it stopped launching, so I opened the terminal and dragged the start-server.sh file into the terminal and that's when I would get my posted error.
When I dragged the file into the terminal I noted it added ' around the file, so I deleted them and tried running it and it gave an error for /home/{user}/Project not existing.
So I renamed the folder to not have a space and bam
it ran
black magic wizards I swear
I have no idea what the root cause was that start all of this
but it seems to be launching, now I just gotta figure out my connectivity issues. (in a different thread)