Starkiller
Super Freak
But... in the same manner, if I talk ____ to someone over the phone and get stabbed, it's not the phone's fault .
But your looking at it with the element of the game taken out. The game is also the vessel. They were talking trash over the game, and he was upset about this guy perhaps being better at the game than he was, and beating him? Thus it was the game or better the games influences in perhaps his hurt pride or anger, that pushed this obviously mentally unstable human waste to be a dumb ass.
Over the phone you aren't aren't directly engaged in something that starts the argument. Only the discussion itself is to blame, so if I call someone a *******, I'm directly insulting him via the phone. But if I call someone a ******* online while gaming, most likely it's due to something happening in the game that is causing me to call him that.