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Haven't thought about it too much, but 2 seems the most logical to me. If I borrow $5 from my friend to buy a sandwich, immediately pay him back, then discover there's a toe in my sandwich, I'd be the one who gets the refund. It be the same if, instead of my friend, it was my seeing eye monkey.
That's assuming credit has nothing to do with it. If Mr. B gets frequent flyer miles or something, he will have slightly profited from all situations.
Unless this is some sort of logic puzzle, 1 and 3 seem clearly unfair and 4 seems like the "simple" approach.
Just my two cents.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with the shoes, indeed Mr. A was thoroughly happy with his shoes.
Mr. B is not a frequent flier, and gets no other benefits from using his credit card.

Strange question, and the answer is probably obvious, but I'll explain the reason for this post after enough people have replied.

Thanks guys.

Hypothetically:

There are 3 parties: Mr. A, Mr. B and Shoe Company (SC)

Mr A. wants a new pair of shoes worth 100 pounds.
He doesn't have a credit card, so he asks Mr. B to buy them using his credit card.
Mr. B spends 100 on his credit card buying the shoes for Mr. A.
Mr. A pays Mr. B back 100 pounds.

The shoes arrive.

Mr. A has 1 x pair of shoes worth 100 pounds and has spent 100 pounds.
Mr. B has spent 100 pounds and has been given 100 pounds back by Mr. A.

At this point All is square.

Unexplainedly, perhaps accidentally, the Shoe Company (SC) refunds the 100 pounds onto Mr. B's credit card.

Mr. B now has 100 pounds of free money.

What is the most reasonable outcome out of 1, 2 and 3?

1.  Mr. B Keeps the all money:
       (Mr. A has no free money)
       (Mr. B has 100 pounds of free money)
       (SC is 100 pounds down)

2.  Mr. B gives the all money to Mr. A:
       (Mr. A has 100 of free money - or [depending how you look at it] a free pair of shoes worth 100 pounds)
       (Mr. B has no free money)
       (SC is 100 pounds down)

3.  Mr. B offers Mr. A half of the money:
       (Mr. A has 50 pounds of free money)
       (Mr. B has 50 pounds of free money)
       (SC is 100 pounds down)

Of course there is the 4th (and fairest option):
       
4.  Mr. B returns 100 pounds back to the Shoe Company:
       (Mr. A has made no free money - neither has he lost anything)
       (Mr. B has Made no free money - neither has he lost anything)
       (SC has its 100 pounds back - all is square

However, this is not a question about morals and we can assume that SC has lost the 100 pounds
to Mr. B (1), Mr. A (2) or to both men (3).  This question is asking which man should get to keep
the money, or should they share it?

Does either man have more of a claim for the money than the other?

[added notes]
There was absolutely nothing wrong with the shoes, indeed Mr. A was thoroughly happy with his shoes.
Mr. B is not a frequent flyer, and gets no other benefits from using his credit card.

No-one else playing?
I'm gonna give it a shot.  But I don't intend on reaching anywhere near 50,000.

Either you're a damn quick typist or you've found a loophole   

[deja vu]

"It's that time of year again.
Is anybody going to be attempting it this year?

For anybody who doesn't know NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month and is held from November 1st - 30th and the idea is for participants to try to write a novel (well 50,000 words) in that space of time.

It's a great creative exercise though and I reckon we should all have a go and talk about it in this thread.

http://www.nanowrimo.org"

[/deja vu]

I liked:
Brad Pitt as Early Grayce in Kalifornia,
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
and most of all Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster.

[Shallow Grave]

I'm generally not a massive fan of British films, but whenever list like this come up I always have to mention Shallow Grave.  It's one of my favourite films.

Also Severance was pretty awesome.  Check it out if you haven't already seen it.

Hey chaps and chapesses.

So, who knows what happened to Pixel Town? (Or at least I'm SURE that's what it was called but I can't find it anywhere...  it was kind of a gradually updated pixel town with some web-comicky aspects... I'm sure I didnt imagine it.

s'okay, I found it... Isotown!

Cheers

This looks interesting.  I'll have a gander later

Today's the day :-)

I've got about 4 hours to sleep then I'm nipping over to Japan for a year.
I'll still be around, loitering with no intent.

Wish me luck... I'm bound to forget something...

And if you haven't already, why not subscribe to my >>>BLOG<<<
...ahem.

Peace out.

maybe instead of commenting directly inside the program, any comments are pulled from the game's forum page?

More often than not topics tend to go OT. So you'd be left with alerts pulled from the game's thread that are very forum-centric. Perhaps as well as also, a feed could come from the AGS database, where comments on the game are always on-track. Here though, you sacrifice quantity.

You could have it work the other way round aswell... perhaps have a function on the AGS Steam software to leave comments about the games which would automatically appear in the regular AGS database.

It sounds like a good idea, Calin, but as you stated in your very first sentence, it's a tad unnecessary... I'm rubbish with computers but even I've managed to keep all my AGS games in one folder (apart fom those which self-extract and create their one folder, but those are few and far between)... still, I'd be interested to see how this goes.

Cool Idea!  Things are a bit hectic at the moment so I'll pass on the game, but I'll certainly observe.

Youch, that's one hell of a task, Grim, but that's what the thread's for.  We accept your challenge ;-)

Nice one for getting on those Cover discs Darius.
That's actually petty fricken awesome.

Level 9 had me going for a bit aswell.

I was thinking you should have a move counter, not just so that a player can count his moves, but also it would be good for you, as you could get beta-testers to record how many moves it takes then to complete each level, and that might help in ordering the levels into some sort of difficulty curve.

Good fun litttle game.

Also, Q should be an Esc key, hehe... or even a Q key?

I'd rather see an RPG game based on these guys.

I wonder what Trihan's up to these days...  :'(

[Steve]

My vote goes to Steve...  It was the most unexpected twist for me. And I liked reading all he little descriptions of the objects.

Bulba, I was kind of hoping that:

Spoiler

the 'nah-huh, uh-huh' exchange would go on for ever.

[close]

That might have won you my vote.

Wyz, what is Hotspot 1 supposed to be?

2. Controlled Faffing.

You've just dscribed my life in two words!

Some of you may remember back in 2007 I went to Japan and stayed in Tokyo for 5 months.
Some of you might even remember my rather rubbish Blog.

Well, in 10 days time I'm going back to Japan on an exchange programme to study Japanese for a year.  This time in Akita (in the North).  And this time I intend to keep a less rubbish blog.

The address is the same and all the old posts are still there if anyone fancies reliving my first Japanese adventure.  I've just given it a slight makeover using a snazzy template.

http://stujapan.blogspot.com/

I hope some of you lovely people will find the time to check in every once in a while and see what I have to say.

Cheers guys.

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Since I've started a whole new thread for this shameless advertisement, why not make the official topic 'Travel Blogs'.
Have you ever kept a travel blog?  Are you following any travel blogs at the moment?
If so, link us up.