The minecraft launcher won't launch minecraft.
What I expected to happen was...:
Minecraft to launch
What actually happened was...:
Minecraft launcher blurted an error at me in the game output tab.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open minecraft launcher
2. Click play
Linked issues
Comments
Dupe of MC-75309
Please help me instead of saying this is a duplicate!!!!! I am tired of you guys telling me this , even though this is not!!!!! I just want minecraft to work!!!!!!

Sorry, but this site is a bug tracker and not a help forum or similar.
You might try the Minecraft help chat to see if someone has a solution to this issue.
Here's the error message that minecraft gave me :
Exception in thread "Client thread" com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was STRING at line 1 column 1
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:815)
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:768)
at lu.b(SourceFile:151)
at lu.<init>(SourceFile:43)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.<init>(SourceFile:155)
at bpp.<init>(SourceFile:41)
at avf.<init>(SourceFile:293)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:124)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was STRING at line 1 column 1
at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.beginArray(JsonReader.java:338)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.CollectionTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(CollectionTypeAdapterFactory.java:79)
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.CollectionTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(CollectionTypeAdapterFactory.java:60)
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:803)
... 7 more
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Using incremental CMS is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release