You can get the dialogue to appear quicker by pressing any key. Same for skipping through it faster. We did that so you could take in the posters and other explorable things in the world before the text box blocked it. If we had more time I maybe would've wanted to see it appear faster for NPC interactions specifically. Also for the pause menu bug did you do anything specific leading up to it? I don't think I've had that happen to me. Sorry about that!