So it says I need to get straight to the point. Basically, I crash every time I try to click that "play" button on the minecraft launcher. I tried it with the regular updated version (1.8.8) and it crashes. When I used a profile with OptiFine 1.8.7, it gets worse by crashing AND auto quitting the program.

So. Yeah. Here's the crash report. I do hope you can help.
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Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Using incremental CMS is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release
[19:00:53] [Client thread/INFO]: Setting user: Hellgame
[19:00:53] [Client thread/INFO]: (Session ID is token:d660d6ce7d794871923da683b6907a7c:5fca2c3b728c46d8a7fd53d18e4f831d)
Exception in thread "Client thread" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java:213)
at com.google.common.collect.Lists$ReverseList.<init>(Lists.java:767)
at com.google.common.collect.Lists.reverse(Lists.java:759)
at lt.b(SourceFile:156)
at lt.<init>(SourceFile:43)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.<init>(SourceFile:155)
at bpo.<init>(SourceFile:41)
at ave.<init>(SourceFile:293)
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(SourceFile:124)
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