Because it's moronic. Are you moronic?

Flashing animated annoyingly looping crap that most gif based avatars become is something I consider to lower the quality of a website. As such, I've never allowed them on anything I've created web-wise either.
no, your avatar WAS a .gif image, and I as well as many other people here, have seen it, a billion times.
Luckily, I have never seen the full thing. I adblock anything animated long before it can finish its loop =)

It isn't. It's damn old.

Unofficial GOG forum would be created. That's all I'm going to say if that ever happens.

This is about the only site I go to on the Net these days. I hate all the Flash/JavaScript ad-ridden websites that pollute the net. I know when I go to GOG.com, my eyeballs are not going to get seared by all the animated crap. This site is damn near Zen-like in its approach.

firefox and adblock for you. i haven't seen flash ad in a long time.
and normal ads are blocked too...
for example:
GOG's ad is the only one i can see on Rockpapershotgun... i guess gog is so awesome that even adblock loves it.
everything else is not visible.