AITA for ending our family dinner when my brother would not stop watching the game?

My parents sold the house where my brother and I grew up. Before they handed over the keys, I organized one final dinner in the empty dining room. We borrowed a folding table, ordered food from the place we used for birthdays, and brought an old photo album that had survived every closet cleanout.

The date was difficult to choose. My parents were moving on Tuesday, my brother Caleb worked Saturday, and I had to drive in from another state. We settled on Sunday evening.

That afternoon Caleb’s basketball team advanced to a deciding playoff game. He is a devoted fan. He asked whether we could move dinner earlier, but my parents were still packing. He then asked to set up a laptop quietly at the end of the table. I said I would rather he watch later and be present for two hours.

He arrived with the laptop anyway.

For the first twenty minutes he kept it closed. Then his phone began buzzing. He opened the stream with the sound off and propped the screen behind a vase. My father teased him, my mother rolled her eyes, and everyone kept eating.

I could not let it go. I asked him to close it. He said he was following both things and reminded me that I chose the night. I said all four of us had chosen the only night that worked.

During dessert, my mother began telling a story about the scratch marks on the pantry door where she measured our heights. Caleb suddenly slapped the table because of something on the screen. She stopped mid-sentence.

I stood up, closed the food containers, and said dinner was over.

My parents looked shocked. Caleb called me controlling and offered to shut the laptop then, but I said the moment had already been dragged through an argument. I packed the album and drove back to my hotel.

My mother cried after I left. She told me later that Caleb’s screen bothered her less than watching us turn the final night into a test of loyalty. My father thinks Caleb was rude but says I punished our parents to make a point to him.

Caleb says he tried to compromise: silent screen, end of table, willingness to close it after I objected again. I think bringing it after I had already said no was not compromise. It was betting that I would be too embarrassed to enforce the answer in front of our parents.

I wanted one evening that felt more important than a game. By ending it, I made sure nobody got that evening.

AITA for packing up instead of ignoring the laptop?