DaemonUmbra

Please provide your debug.log using one of the paste sites listed in my signature below.

We don't support old versions because we don't want to support every version ever made forever, we don't have the resources or the will to keep switching back and forth. Note that if we support any arbitrary old version, the people who like a DIFFERENT arbitrary version will argue why we don't support THEIR favorite arbitrary version. What do you mean the command to download Forge for Mac's terminal? Just download the installer from https://files.minecraftforge.net/, make sure you have Java installed, and run the installer.

The logs section of my signature has more info

Just unplug any gaming accessory that isn't a keyboard or mouse if it comes down to it. Edit: Hold up, are you saying you haven't tried unplugging the gamepad?

It's not, it's not even a valid thing. I just assumed that's what you were trying because O for Offline, what were you actually trying to do with it?

1.12 is no longer supported on this forum. Please update to a modern version of Minecraft to receive support.

You're trying to use 1.14.4 Optifine on 1.15.2, this is not going to work. Additionally I'm not sure if there is even a 1.15.2 version of Optifine that is compatible with Forge yet, check the Optifine changelog for more info.

That's no how you're supposed to do it but it will work. You used GitHub itself which hosts repositories, rather than GitHub's Gist service that hosts single text files

Personally I don't see what's so agonizing about writing an extra line of code per block

Please provide your debug.log using one of the paste sites listed in my signature below

Are you trying to start a server in offline mode? Why?

Please provide the installer log using one of the paste sites in my signature

Under each and every one of my posts

I would assume the site being blocked is AdFocus, which is the site used to monetize Forge's download links. Try going to the files page, clicking "Show All Versions" and clicking the little information symbol next to the installer download for the version you want.

1.12 is no longer supported on this forum. Please update to a modern version of Minecraft to receive support.

1.12 is no longer supported on this forum. Please update to a modern version of Minecraft to receive support.

As curious as I am, I don't think we want that link anywhere on the forums and I doubt there's anything we can do about it. If you want to send me the link please DM it to me rather than posting it on the forums.

1.12 is no longer supported on this forum. Please update to a modern version of Minecraft to receive support.

NO!!! That is about as far as you can get from the point of Forge Where did you read this? If you want to play Minecraft then BUY IT.

1.12 is no longer supported on this forum. Please update to a modern version of Minecraft to receive support.

Are you really asking why the game is in demo mode when you haven't purchased the game?

Have you bought the game?

1.12.2 isn't supported here anymore, please provide server and client debug.logs from 1.14.4 or 1.15.2

Please provide the debug.log from the client showing this connection attempt

What Minecraft version are you using?