Oh, it's not about bandwidth, believe me, it's a design choice. Limits are what make you more creative, everyone can have a fancy shiny avatar if no limits are in place, but see, this place is all about old games, from the 80s and the 90s, where musicians and artists made their best efforts to create awesome music and awesome graphics with the few resources available to them. By enforcing low limits I actually wanted to encourage people to be creative in the same way and use small sprites as avatars, just like the ones used in those games for example. I didn't tell anyone until now, but a quick glance at the
memberlist makes me feel happy, since more than one person chose an avatar that fits well with this forum's theme. Even I sometimes change between my usual avatar (Kamineko, the gray cat from Azumanga Daioh) and the one I'm using now (Nadja Arle, the beautiful girl from Madou Monogatari).
That said, don't be as drastic as saying that this is my forum so there are my rules. I stated this more than once: this is a place where everyone should be welcome and treated like a friend. Exceptions can be made and will be made whenever it's possible to make someone happy without going too far (as I said, for example, I don't mind an avatar slightly larger than 120 pixels, but I will never accept one larger than 144 because it actually stretches the forum structure, and yes, I know it can be resized, I even have the php code to do that dynamically, but I don't want to resize pixel art, it would look like crap). If you wanted to join a forum with tyrannic admins that think of you as an annoying filthy slave who dares to post on their elitistic forum, always ready to say no (when they are in a good mood) or ban you straight away (when they're in their normal mood), then you are in the wrong place, this is not tasvideos. You are not an user here, you are a friend, like every other one.
So please, post a link to the avatar of your choice, and I'll see what I can do
