This could get uncomfortable for those of us who have or even actively play a self sim.
Hank: Okay everyone, listen up! Our head of forensics is actually sitting in a parallel dimension and controling our life in a videogame.
Gavin: Connor, come quick! Your father has taken to the bottle again!
Me: Uh, guys? Hank is correct. We are all projections of my true self, but I don't just control our lifes, I also blog about it and sometimes write fanfics and chronicles. But that's no big deal, because we all share the same soul. When I stop playing the game, you simply merge back into me.
Connor (looking at Gavin): Absolutely not! In no reality do I share a soul with THIS person!
Gavin (pointing at Connor): Same! - But, say, Enki, you said we're on the internet. So we're popular, right?
Me: Uh... sometimes I get three Likes on the same post. That's good, yes?
Gavin (to Hank): Whatever you gave Enki, don't give it to him ever again. I mean it!
Jokes aside, this is how I view my story and videogame characters: as fragments of myself. If they became sentient, then we'd still be the same being, albeit with different personalities.