I noticed that there was some random service running on my task manager called 'gaming services', which had an xbox logo on it. Thinking to myself "I dont own an xbox, dont plan on owning one, and wouldnt want my xbox and computer talking anyways", I deleted it by running the line "get-appxpackage Microsoft.GamingServices | remove-AppxPackage -allusers" in power shell.
Well, for reasons incomprehensible to me, deleting that seemingly xbox related service from my PC actually broke the minecraft installation on my computer. So now, begrudgingly, I need to know how to re-install gaming services.