Never understood trash talkers, but its just a sign of an ugly personality in or out of the game. They just use the anonymity and detachment to do things they could’t do in a real social setting.
Normal reaction for me is ignore and or report if its really vulgar. Talking back just escalates things, and I’ve been online since ’96 so all this leet dude-ism is just tiresome now.
On a side note, some of the older games I played we used to /bow after a good fight, or some of my favorite competitive play was saber dueling in Jedi Knight 2. Would bow by ducking and looking down so the character animation looked like a bow. A lot of respect and healthy game play go a long way to making a competitive but friendly environment.
Sadly we have a lot of tea bag face crouchers from counter strike or halo era games now. So “keep calm and carry on”.
On a sort of related tangent. I took an Aikido class that was very into spiritual balance. One of the things the sensei would talk about is how to let go of anger. If someone walks into a room and you get angry, then you have just lost control over yourself. By allowing them to cause those emotions in you, they “win”.
One of our assignments was to find someone you hated and apologize to them for what ever conflict you had. If that other person wants to continue to be mad, then they are all alone in that and you can continue on calmly.
Hard to do, but if you can, it is very relaxing.
Every pvp game should have it, teach people about consequences for their actions.