Persistent save file?

[Wimbell The Gimp]

I was just sitting in the pause screen and noticed that it slowly zooms in. When the background image was out of frame i just spammed save. Then i checked my save files and have a file called "persistent" It's just a bunch of words and ♥♥♥♥ but i feel like there's something... Or I don't understand game file enough

[radbananas]

Also wondering about this. Just found it in my save files though - gonna have to go stare at the pause menu for a bit, too!

[水面]

"Ren'Py supports persistent data, saved data that is not associated with a particular point in a game. Persistent data is accessed through fields of the persistent object, which is bound to the variable persistent.

All data reachable through fields on persistent is saved when Ren'Py terminates, or when renpy.save_persistent() is called. Persistent data is loaded when Ren'Py starts, and when Ren'Py detects that the persistent data has been updated on disk."

-From Ren'py's website