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I have certainly failed to hit a moving target. Have you not? Do you use different rules for melee and ranged attacks in this regard?

The point is that there are multiple possibilities, and the GM is not choosing which when they roll, so the ultimate decision at the table is not up to them if they're using the rules correctly.

What's the in-fiction difference between THP and Armor Points? Why is it impossible to miss?

If no one is controlling the result, it is impartial.

You are welcome to have that opinion, but I simply disagree. Why the roll is being made specifically makes a large difference to me.

I'm not sure who you're talking about. I've only ever heard that kind of jargon from Narrativist-leaning folks.

Not really interested in appeals to authority.

I don't see how what you said is different from what they said. Please explain.

That is exactly how I feel. I really don't care for the entire concept of metacurrency. By definition it takes things that are out of the PCs control and out them in the hands of the players, generally to serve a narrative purpose.

Well, there you go. Mission Accomplished?

...yeah, because preferences differ.

The cute jargon in a lot of these games really rubs me the wrong way, to be honest. Probably a me thing, but I feel how I feel.

As has been said to you many times before, while you clearly don't care about the difference, others do. I'd argue it's the crux of the style difference. If you can't accept that it matters to others, we are at an impasse.

I have tables I use to determine who's on a random house if it turns out I need to know. Tables for a lot of other things like that too. The tables (and my judgement if I get weird results) take the fiction into account. Pretty sure I mentioned that a while back.

What type of rolls would you use to resolve conflicts in D&D? I assume you're not just talking about combat. Opposed skill rolls? What changes would you need to make mechanically to do what you're talking about?

The framing scenes thing is actually my personal yes/no toggle for "narrative game", and that's actually from years of reading your posts. I associate narrative games with games @pemerton likes, which I associate with "games where Pemerton talks about scene-framing.

But the PC does not have the ability to just decide that another person is there.

This is Burning Wheel? What about RM and MotW? How much control over the fiction do those players have beyond the ability of their PCs?

How much control do players have over aspects of each game beyond the ability of their PCs? No need for quotes from the rulebooks or game designers; rather, I'm just looking for a casual answer.

Not one person though; one side.