I bow before your superior computing power... ...but it doesn't change the fact that most of us are not so blessed, either in terms of computer or connection speed. The reason given for no animated avatars is valid enough in the practical, real world.

Even if that weren't the case your continued complaints to the contrary come across as argumentative, or bragging, or both... like animated avatars themselves, another way of drawing more attention to yourself.

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John