Thanks! Glad to hear you had some fun! (And the player’s surname, Cyphus, is a nod to the Sisyphus of Greek myth) ;-)
It’s not your laptop, it’s actually a bug, I was able to reproduce it: I imagine your email contains the letter “P”. It’s conflicting with one of the pause buttons.
I’ll provide a fix. In the meantime, if you’d still like to sign up to the newsletter, you can do it here: https://cauldron.games. Thanks for reporting it!