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As the title says, my launcher (the latest official version) can't launch the 1.12.2 forge version. When I hit play, the loading bar would just say "Preparing" forever with no progress. It can, however, launch any vanilla versions just fine. In addition to that, if I close the launcher after I hit the play button with the forge version, I can't run the minecraft launcher again before ending it's task using the task manager first. It's been this way since Friday and the day before that it was working fine.

Here's a couple things I've tried to no avail:

1. Restarting my computer
2. Reinstalling the latest official launcher
3. Using the beta version of the launcher
4. Disabling Norton security
5. Reinstalling 1.12.2 Forge and trying different 1.12.2 Forge versions
6. Deleting all mods
7. Changing my DNS
8. Reinstalling Java and trying different versions of it
9. Rebooting my internet router
10. Leaving the launcher running for a whole night

Here's a copy of my launcher log while I was attempting to launch the forge version using the beta launcher and left it running for more than an hour until I quit the launcher: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/rh6pnX3wMH/

Thank you in advance!

anyone have any ideas?

Yeah, looks like it worked using MultiMC.

Thanks! Guess I have to ditch minecraft launcher now.