In a lot of cases it would be easier to do networked ‘stuff’ if I could send a network message and actually receive it myself as well as sending it to others.
For example, to implement a chat system, it would be easier to just send a networked chat message and deal with displaying it when it is received like any other chat message, than to have special code to display the chat when sent as well as just sending it.
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