You are GOD living in a simulation.
You did this to yourself, out of boredom.

The reason YOU-you have almost no perceptible control is because you are every other piece of the simulation as much as you are yourself.

You won't ever succeed in changing the way other organic brains perceive the simulation by changing the way your brain perceives the simulation. You can however change the simulation by changing the way other organic brains perceive it.