[GO] CS and the shit-talking

First of all, I expect to get buried in downvotes for this, but I feel the need to vent. It's a self-post anyways, so no karma penalty for speaking my mind.

To start, I love CS:GO. It's exactly what I wanted Source to be and I'd even go as far as to say that the community has become a better place from it. However, there's one thing that's really got on my nerves over the years, and even as an adult who's played since high school, I can't stand some of the people in the community who feel like the facade of in-game anonimity is enough to justify shit-talking.

The last competitive match a friend and I were assigned, there was one guy on our team whom we were chosen for, we'll just call him Chu because I forgot his alias in Steam and I don't feel up to checking it out. He was pretty good, had a quick finger for the Scout, could do a lot of damage when taking point on a narrow rush, but had a particular nature for shit-talking. My friend (a 30-something married guy with two kids), who plays CS competitive matches on occasion with myself and a few others, had a few bad save rounds during a low spot of the match. Dear Chu decided he was going to use this opportunity to pick on my friend (paraphraseds):

"Fuck you, you little faggot cunt. You're just a little skinny fucking faggot with no life and no hope. You're better off just doming yourself, you little niggerfaggot. Go kill yourself and hang from a tree, you piece of shit."

I don't know what it was about his tone of voice, but the way he said it left me profoundly bothered. I have to clean up shit like him all the time, having been admin on a few Source servers and running my own IRC server, but this guy... he had shit-talking down to an art form. And the racism didn't help much either. He sounded at least 15-18 years old, and wouldn't shut the hell up.

Later into the match, the guy declares himself to be the best of the team (ranking third place on our team overall at the time), and when he finally gets told off by the actual highest-ranking member of the team, the fucker decides to--in the last round--start spamming all-chat with the positions of our teammates, causing us to lose 14-16. He then boldly claims to the other team that he had to put up with a bunch of shitty players. We all told him to go fuck himself, and he (once more) told us to kill ourselves.

I know it's the internet, and I know it's been part of the experience for years, but is shit-talking really necessary? I'm aware that I'm preaching to the choir by posting it on this sub, because most of you guys are fairly level-headed--it just seems like this guy was the ultimate example of why a lot of gamers know Counter-Strike for its unforgiving mechanics and its fair share of assholes like Chu.

Okay, I just wanted to vent. Carry on!