Okay so I was able to load up minecraft and play for about 20 minutes, so I am going to make a new survival world and see how it goes.
One problem I ran into is that the selected amount of ram won't save after I restart the launcher. I put in 6G and clicked save, then closed out the launcher, came back, and it was back to 2.
I couldn't find any logs with errors, but I noticed some of the logs from last night greeted me with a "This archive is either in unknown format or damaged" error when I tried opening them.