so, i think the GC is working, i just forgot that the tester i made is constantly querying to refresh the last acces times on #realy so that is ready to go, now i can move onto next task
haha just considering whether to omit the last access timestamp or not and discovered the sorter was only sorting by event serial (which is basically the sequence of insertion into the database, not the last access time lol) o dear well, fixed now lol