I'm not programming games because I believe I'll need hardware acceleration to do anything cool and to get that satisfactorily I'll need a shader language and I'm not wasting my time learning one of those when I know GPGPU APIs are on the way. Or maybe OpenCL is ready, I'll have to look into that.

But I am enjoying solving general problems, GNU debugger is great and I'm starting to love C++. The question is, what's the next problem to solve? I can't think of any ideas, the last one was a long shot at being useful.

There is the problem of loading code from the disc selectively. There doesn't seem to do be a way to do that with C++, only with slow assed scripting languages[JAVA!! ]. Reason is I want to make that squad level turn based strategy game extremely modular.
Yeah my problem is I'm an idealist. If it's not a bulletproof solution, it's not worth considering. I'm insane of course, but hopefully it'll pay me a nice niche.