I think about this a lot. The exact wording "baked into my soul" showed up a lot especially early on into discovering this about myself, where there was a lot of feeling like that being a pocket monster was a failure of anti-corporatism on my part. And, well, it isn't exactly like I've found a way to convert it into praxis in the years since. But I at least look at it as my own small act of theft — "if you shoved this stuff into my soul, goddamn will you prevent me from taking it with me". I don't know if that's enough for me to be a good person or whatever, but it is what it is.
It's always moral to pirate Nintendo games.
