How Tasker made my son's day. Just a story.

I just thought I'd share this little story about my 2.5 year old son. So he happened upon some video on YouTube of an Android game called Impossible 3D Stunt Tracks or something like that. It's basically a racing game where you go around some nutty track high up in the sky with a variety of cars that you can either buy in the game with money from winning races or through watching a whole bunch of 30 second videos. Oh, he also has a toy Lamborghini Gallardo that's lime green like one of the cars in the game. Mind you, he loves his green car so much, it's one of 3 things he sleeps with at night, along with a small teddy bear and a white Audi R8 toy. Anyhow, one thing he loves to do is take the Lamborghini and mimic what the green car on TV (through YouTube) is doing.

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So when I found the game and put it on a spare phone of mine for him to play, he was excited. What wasn't exciting though was that the green car in the game cost 1000 coins. Well, that's a tough game and there's no way he could earn 1000 coins to get the green car by just playing it and winning races, never mind that he's too young to be that good at it anyway (even I had trouble with it, to be honest).

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Enter Tasker and AutoInput. So I set up a Tasker profile that launches the game and hits the right buttons at the right times in order to watch the video, close it out, collect the 40 coins, and repeat the process. In an hour, it was making like 2000+ coins. I let it run for awhile and he had enough money in a short time to be able to buy not just the cool green car but ALL the cars in the game.

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Just to see his face light up when he could actually use the green car instead of having a big ol' lock icon covering it was worth much more than the time it took to write the profile to Tasker. "Green car, Daddy! Green car!" Huge smile from ear to ear.

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Goddam Tasker, man. What a wonderful app it is. That's all I got. Thanks for reading this. :)