Eloquently said

Dealing with it is not a problem. I'm asking about the people that do it.

You are putting words in my mouth. That's not what I said.

Coping with it is not a problem. I am far older than most of these gamers. Just trying to wrap my head around it.

I met a new friend on a game I had just started playing tonight. He seemed to know a lot of the other players online. After a while we got beat pretty badly and the whole opposing team entered our party and trash talked him until he just logged out. I just sat there silently listening to the whole thing.

I guess its just been a while since I got on a mic.

I am the definition of calm.

Well there it is. I just don't get off on fragging a noob and rubbing it in his face. Sure I like to win, but I don't want crush your soul.

Aah, I think you just gave me the real answer. Its just because the trash talkers aren't at risk of getting their teeth knocked out. So they don't have to watch what they say. Thanks man. You might have cleared this up for me.

That's fair. And there's that same disconnect that the whole internet has. You aren't looking that person in the face as you trash them.

Right. And some games have a far more toxic following. But its a serious brown stain on the entire gaming community if you ask me.

Well, you are talking about the person that's getting triggered. Its a whole other conversation about how to react to trash talkers. That's not the player I am talking about.

You got me there.

There's a difference between friendly trash talk and trolling somebody into rage quitting. The trash talk in gaming is much farther out than other competitions.

I did. There was gloating, not the toxic stuff I see in gaming. This is beyond rubbing in a win. Its trolling people into rage quiting.

It seems to mostly happen after the fact.

Maybe a band saw would be better then.

I make cabinets. Its hard to tell what I am looking at, but my first move would be trace it out and use a jigsaw.