Game Center Requests/Contacts Issue

I am new to a few things here, so its a little confusing and I'm not sure under which category my question falls. Many, I guess:
For one, I only recently began using a Windows computer for the first time in a decade or so, because my Macbook broke and the cost of repair was astronomically high. I used Windows years ago but that doesnt really count because it was pre-brain surgery and I basically cant do any of the things I was able to do back then. So I had learned how to use a Mac afterward & that is what I've known.
Now its like I'm figuring out Windows for the 1st time AND.. to make matters worse, this pc I got is Weirdos 8. Very strange stuff here. After my MacBook broke, I took it in to the Apple Store & found out the high cost of getting it repaired so it sits languishing, probably forever. And IDK but I think they priced these Windoze 8 machines low to try to lure - I mean - entice people into buying them? Because I paid next to nothing & the thing works great. Until now, that I said it works great. Now its going to break.
Ok soooo.....today I noticed that there were suddenly a ton of notifications under my iPhone's game center app. Checked it & I saw that ONE person - one extremely annoying person, I might add! - had sent me over 80 game requests/challenges. I began to go through and after about the first 500 million, I developed irretractible carpal tunnel syndrome and permanently lost the use of both arms. So I decided to just go ahead & remove this person as a contact. It was some sort of stranger from the web with whom I had literally *never* had any kind of communication at all other than to accept her friend request.
And the most sinful part of what this woman did was lol she had (this is so awful. I know I'm horrible...) her profile picture was that of I guess her son or daughter. Kind of unidentifiable. I mean, if youre going to make your picture show your child, at least show your best looking kid. Heh heh. So anyway, I removed the offensive in 2 ways woman as a contact & hoped that would remove all 550,388,936 requests (give or take) but it did not. I even closed the app and re-opened it but that didnt help. Please tell me I dont have to manually go thru & remove every single request...
beat my high score of 100 points
beat my high score of 110 points
beat my high score of 120 points
beat my high score of 130 points
beat my high score of 140 points
beat my kid with an ugly stick
beat my high score of 150 points....
But in all honesty, there were over 75 individual requests across at least 5 different games from her. Not cool. Is there a way to avoid this? Like preferably BLOCK a person, causing all of their requests to go away? Or just some more simple way to do it?

Try to do this:
1. Open Terminal (in Applications>Utilities)
2. Paste the following command:
sudo -b "/Applications/Textedit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit"
     - Enter password
     - TextEdit should open
3. Press CMD+O > Then select "On My Mac" in the upper left corner
4. Press CMD+SHIFT+G and type: /etc/hosts
     - Open file
5. Clear all the content and leave only (if there is more content, copy it to another file):
### Host Database## localhost is used to configure the loopback interface# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.##127.0.0.1       localhost255.255.255.255 broadcasthost::1             localhostfe80::1%lo0     localhost
6. Save file
7. Open Game Center. Log in should work now.
8. If there was any extra content in the hosts file, paste it back.

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