Microsoft And Apple Want You To Buy Yesterday’s Technology Tomorrow

Over the last couple of days, we’ve seen Microsoft launch a revamped Surface Book with more powerful graphics and extended battery life, along with its first all-in-one desktop PC, the Surface Studio. And Apple just pulled the curtain back on its new line-up of highly-anticipated MacBooks just a few hours […]

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Minecraft Bi-Weekly Build Challenge #4: Haunted House! via /r/Minecraft


Minecraft Bi-Weekly Build Challenge #4: Haunted House!

LAST WEEK'S WINNERS!!

Gold

Crabtain

Silver

snow_rabbit

Bronze

dermasbroo


Honourable Mention(s)

JoeBolble, Qweertz


Last week's challenge

Introduction

………………BOOOOO! Did I scare you? Well you better scare me and the other judges this week, cause we're going to be building some spooky scary houses! With halloween just around the corner, this is the time to build the creepiest building you can imagine!

Inspiration

Graveyard

Skeletons!

Haunted house

Haunted house 2

Haunted house 3

Gloomy manor


Challenge

Easy mode Construct a haunted house! This house only has to be one story (it can be bigger if you want) and there must be a creepy walkway to it. Also, include the interior in your pictures!

Hard mode Build a haunted mansion!! This haunted mansion needs to be at least two stories tall. Along with a creepy entrance, there must also be a graveyard built in the backyard and (at least) one custom creepy tree somewhere around your build!


Rules

  1. Submitting an entry To submit an entry, you must comment on this post and format your comment like this:

Title of submission

Easy or hard mode

Link to submission photos or video (preferably youtube or Imgur)

Comments

2. Vanilla only No mods that add new blocks or items are allowed. No resource packs are allowed. Any minecraft version is allowed and you may build with custom terrain, creative mode, world edit or etc as long as it doesn't add any new blocks to the game.

3. No preexisting builds We're going with the honour system here but if anything had already been built before the start of the contest, don't submit it.

4. Build teams are allowed There may be more that one person building for a challenge but only one person may submit their entry with their account


Points and leaderboards

Link to sheet. The leaderboards are on the 2nd page


For points and judging:

There is only 3 winners each week. Each participant will get 1 point for submitting their entry if in easy mode. In hard mode, they will get 2. There are honourable mentions but they do not get any extra points.

Anybody that places Bronze with an easy submission gets 3 points and if they do a hard challenge, they get 4 points

Anybody that places Silver with an easy submission gets 5 points and if they do a hard challenge, they get 6 points

Anybody that places Gold with an easy submission gets 7 points and if they do a hard challenge, they get 8 points


Schedule (AST)

Sunday, October 16th 2016: Challenge begins!

Saturday morning, October 29th 2016: Contest is closed. No other submissions will be allowed.

Sunday morning, October 30th 2016 A new challenge and winners are announced in that post!

Submitted October 16, 2016 at 06:39AM by kidmania01
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Las ventas de Amazon suben 29%, impulsado por su Prime Day

La minorista por internet Amazon.com Inc reportó este jueves un alza de 29% de sus ventas trimestrales, por un gran aumento de los ingresos en su evento de compras Prime Day, en la temporada de regreso a clases en Estados Unidos y en su servicio de computación en nube.

El mayor comercio online del mundo dijo que sus ventas netas subieron a 32,710 millones de dólares en el tercer trimestre terminado el 30 de septiembre, desde 25,360 millones de dólares del mismo período del año anterior. Los analistas esperaban ventas netas de 32,690 millones de dólares, según Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

La ganancia neta de Amazon subió a 252 millones de dólares, o 52 centavos por acción, desde los 79 millones de dólares o 17 centavos por título de hace un año, en el sexto trimestre consecutivo con utilidades.

Lee: Amazon quiere llegar al espacio en este cohete

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