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Thank you @ChampionAsh5357!

Look at my three most previous replies again if you have already read them prior to this reply existing. Made some edits for the better.

THIS IS THE SOLUTION TO THE THEAD! I expect there to be more responses below (EDIT: unless this thread is locked first) so hopefully the above will allow this reply to stand out better. Frankly, just scroll down. If you look to the right of the launcher, you will notice that a uniquely thin scroll bar appears after you select more options (at least, so long as your launcher isn't large enough to display both of the boxes on the screen without the scroll bar). It blends in quite well, and is so gaunt that it is hard to see. EDIT: A fitting solution considering my username, right? Anyway, thank you for your assistance @warjort, and thank you @ChampionAsh5357 for taking that as an opportunity to educate me. And @Ugdhar for being a good sport.

Actually, most intelligent people do a little bit of research. At a cursory glance, any research that you would have done would have revealed that the url is indeed safe. And to further a point I made in my most previous reply, you chose to make this curt remark rather then addressing the issue that you had with it in a helpful manner. If you had asked the contents of the link be sent via another service that you are particularly okay with, I would have done that no problem. But you didn't, and favored making a brusque statement rather than being productive.

That's great to know, and makes sense! I verified with the most up to date version that my issue persisted throughout the versions of forge before posting but while browsing the forum first for an answer as well as to see how well the moderation is on this forum, it seemed like most moderators and most of the active members are more focused on power tripping rather than actually being helpful to the forum. So, rather than taking a risk and hoping that whoever looks at my thread feels like actually being helpful, I covered up the version number because-- as you said-- it should have nothing to do with the specific version of forge because it's just a file that is being accessed through the vanilla launcher. As a side note to my aforementioned observation ("...are more focused on power tripping rather than actually being helpful to the forum"), it's because a lot of them are; look at the second reply to my thread. Not useful at all to the nature of the thread, and prioritizing a completely unproductive remark rather than actually focusing on the issue and trying to be helpful. Besides, for somebody with over 2k replies and posts they evidently lack an understanding of the rules behind the forums-- otherwise they wouldn't have made the remark that they did. Hypothetically, if they had an understanding then why make their remark at all? Well in either scenario, it's because their priority is not assisting with the issue at hand. I mean, at a bare minimum if they wanted to be helpful they could've still made the remark while actually attempting to do something that would be helpful. Nonetheless, to give credit where credit is due they were certainly a good sport about my response. Also, just curious @ChampionAsh5357, what is the nature of a warning? As in, does it currently affect me in any way, and if I receive too many what is incurred? I am obviously quite new here, so am unfamiliar with a lot of things. (To those that are reading this: I reasonably received a warning for trying to circumvent the version rule to be safe)

This is because going about doing it this way won't give the author any ad revenue for their work. Because it doesn't cost anything, ad revenue is how the author receives any income from this project which takes a lot of effort.

I believe that this will likely be considered out of scope of what the forum moderators are allowed to help with (it says in the EAQ that they will only help with 1.18+ issues), however I think I know how to solve the issue. Go to the download page again, but don't click install-- instead click "Show All Versions", and a list will appear below this button. Hover over the "i" next to the installer of the first result, and select "Direct Download".

Yeah, programming with GUI's in Java can be a pain. I don't know anything about this website, but it may prove useful to your endeavors; https://mcreator.net/wiki/gui-editor. Seems to host a reservoir of knowledge on minecraft java conventions / designs.

What a brilliant, topical, and educated guess; https://ibb.co/ccFVzL8. EDIT: Oh and forgot to mention useful to the thread.

I attached a screenshot of what the edit installation page brings up for me in my original post. As you can see, I don't have a jvm arguments box input area. This is why I am confused. EDIT: I tried to find other people who had this same issue but could find nothing. I then tried to determine a workaround without using a 3rd party launcher, but couldn't find anything of meaning. I am perfectly able to modify the jvm arguments of any vanilla installation.

I want to allocate more memory to my modded minecraft forge profile, but have no access to the JVM arguments. https://ibb.co/9przcBq I tried to manually add a "-XmxTG" argument with T being the number of gigs that I wanted to allocate by manipulating the forge JSON file, but had no luck. This likely has to do with the fact that I do not understand the point of the JSON file for forge, and couldn't find any useful documentation on it nor my issue. Any suggestions for how to allocate more memory to forge using the minecraft launcher?